[PATCH 19/30] scsi: Lock down the eata driver

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Nov 9 17:33:01 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.

The eata driver takes a single string parameter that contains a slew of
settings, including hardware resource configuration.  Prohibit use of the
parameter if the kernel is locked down.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Dario Ballabio <ballabio_dario at emc.com>
cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen at oracle.com>
cc: linux-scsi at vger.kernel.org
---

 drivers/scsi/eata.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/eata.c b/drivers/scsi/eata.c
index 6501c330d8c8..72fceaa8f3da 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/eata.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/eata.c
@@ -1552,8 +1552,11 @@ static int eata2x_detect(struct scsi_host_template *tpnt)
 
 	tpnt->proc_name = "eata2x";
 
-	if (strlen(boot_options))
+	if (strlen(boot_options)) {
+		if (kernel_is_locked_down("Command line-specified device addresses, irqs and dma channels"))
+			return -EPERM;
 		option_setup(boot_options);
+	}
 
 #if defined(MODULE)
 	/* io_port could have been modified when loading as a module */

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