[PATCH 21/38] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Apr 5 17:00:01 UTC 2017


When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
device to access or modify the kernel image.

To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
default values for those parameters is.

Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
to manually coded parameters.

This patch annotates drivers in drivers/net/irda/.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel at sortiz.org>
cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
---

 drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c    |    6 +++---
 drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c    |    6 +++---
 drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c  |   10 +++++-----
 drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.c |    4 ++--
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c b/drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c
index c285eafd3f1c..35f198d83701 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/ali-ircc.c
@@ -2207,11 +2207,11 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_ALIAS("platform:" ALI_IRCC_DRIVER_NAME);
 
 
-module_param_array(io, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(io, int, ioport, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(io, "Base I/O addresses");
-module_param_array(irq, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(irq, int, irq, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "IRQ lines");
-module_param_array(dma, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(dma, int, dma, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dma, "DMA channels");
 
 module_init(ali_ircc_init);
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c b/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c
index aaecc3baaf30..7beae147be11 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/nsc-ircc.c
@@ -2396,11 +2396,11 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 module_param(qos_mtt_bits, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(qos_mtt_bits, "Minimum Turn Time");
-module_param_array(io, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(io, int, ioport, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(io, "Base I/O addresses");
-module_param_array(irq, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(irq, int, irq, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "IRQ lines");
-module_param_array(dma, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(dma, int, dma, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dma, "DMA channels");
 module_param(dongle_id, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(dongle_id, "Type-id of used dongle");
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c b/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c
index dcf92ba80872..23ed89ae5ddc 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c
@@ -82,24 +82,24 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(nopnp, "Do not use PNP to detect controller settings, defaults
 
 #define DMA_INVAL 255
 static int ircc_dma = DMA_INVAL;
-module_param(ircc_dma, int, 0);
+module_param_hw(ircc_dma, int, dma, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ircc_dma, "DMA channel");
 
 #define IRQ_INVAL 255
 static int ircc_irq = IRQ_INVAL;
-module_param(ircc_irq, int, 0);
+module_param_hw(ircc_irq, int, irq, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ircc_irq, "IRQ line");
 
 static int ircc_fir;
-module_param(ircc_fir, int, 0);
+module_param_hw(ircc_fir, int, ioport, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ircc_fir, "FIR Base Address");
 
 static int ircc_sir;
-module_param(ircc_sir, int, 0);
+module_param_hw(ircc_sir, int, ioport, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ircc_sir, "SIR Base Address");
 
 static int ircc_cfg;
-module_param(ircc_cfg, int, 0);
+module_param_hw(ircc_cfg, int, ioport, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(ircc_cfg, "Configuration register base address");
 
 static int ircc_transceiver;
diff --git a/drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.c b/drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.c
index 8d5b903d1d9d..282b6c9ae05b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.c
+++ b/drivers/net/irda/w83977af_ir.c
@@ -1263,9 +1263,9 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 
 module_param(qos_mtt_bits, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(qos_mtt_bits, "Mimimum Turn Time");
-module_param_array(io, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(io, int, ioport, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(io, "Base I/O addresses");
-module_param_array(irq, int, NULL, 0);
+module_param_hw_array(irq, int, irq, NULL, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "IRQ lines");
 
 /*

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