From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEACC10F27 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:38:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 694E122522 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:38:12 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583879892; bh=pOBRO4yQ8M2x5rhKzXXtC/NotBfv7rzNIGCF6qFlYII=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:List-ID:From; b=KLvlsr0WfPcFg2W1G/i2Ie26zbvndc/EKcmCsD4rotY3s5/IlkJzUUZ0L5uiIpjkq mnoojzCMOWEV/HAyl5sNCYi92i0wiP1oKhVmo+iYa5ez3Ep84VJYQ9m7uRMhcoC88n 8SgeQaEeWsKsC4E5prw4EZ0O+Ns9KAqtn4ePZ+k4= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727821AbgCJWiL (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:38:11 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60500 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727729AbgCJWiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Mar 2020 18:38:10 -0400 Received: from ebiggers-linuxstation.mtv.corp.google.com (unknown [104.132.1.77]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C222208E4; Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:38:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1583879889; bh=pOBRO4yQ8M2x5rhKzXXtC/NotBfv7rzNIGCF6qFlYII=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=WmB/WPVisfZXQc/q46fki9sEs/5zldSkoVQPd5xDlLkwCablpaYbd63LfoaC3HhOO zu0452JvLmv+1dzSUWvNXYM6iRqBfYQrYNJHvTCS+OkNjYCT1QZsy47zwmqf01ak5z r5GXvNqp02ClyPx2wGZ7ZBv59X7B4wxFjs5i7CZI= From: Eric Biggers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jeff Vander Stoep , Jessica Yu , Kees Cook , Luis Chamberlain Subject: [PATCH] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:37:31 -0700 Message-Id: <20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Eric Biggers It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely by setting /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string. This can be preferable to setting it to a nonexistent file since it avoids the overhead of an attempted execve(), avoids potential deadlocks, and avoids the call to security_kernel_module_request() and thus on SELinux-based systems eliminates the need to write SELinux rules to dontaudit module_request. However, when module autoloading is disabled in this way, request_module() returns 0. This is broken because callers expect 0 to mean that the module was successfully loaded. Apparently this was never noticed because this method of disabling module autoloading isn't used much, and also most callers don't use the return value of request_module() since it's always necessary to check whether the module registered its functionality or not anyway. But improperly returning 0 can indeed confuse a few callers, for example get_fs_type() in fs/filesystems.c where it causes a WARNING to be hit: if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) { fs = __get_fs_type(name, len); WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name); } This is easily reproduced with: echo > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe mount -t NONEXISTENT none / It causes: request_module fs-NONEXISTENT succeeded, but still no fs? WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1106 at fs/filesystems.c:275 get_fs_type+0xd6/0xf0 [...] Arguably this warning is broken and should be removed, since the module could have been unloaded already. However, request_module() should also correctly return an error when it fails. So let's make it return -ENOENT, which matches the error when the modprobe binary doesn't exist. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Luis Chamberlain Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- kernel/kmod.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index bc6addd9152b..a2de58de6ab6 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int call_modprobe(char *module_name, int wait) * invoke it. * * If module auto-loading support is disabled then this function - * becomes a no-operation. + * simply returns -ENOENT. */ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...) { @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...) WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async()); if (!modprobe_path[0]) - return 0; + return -ENOENT; va_start(args, fmt); ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args); -- 2.25.1.481.gfbce0eb801-goog