From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
keyrings@vger.kernel.org, matthew.garrett@nebula.com,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 18:23:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2cd73312-c074-1367-6daa-710d11ac68f1@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10164.1480378260@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On 11/28/2016 06:11 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> This would prevent any IPMI interface from working if any address was given
>> on the kernel command line. I'm not sure what the best policy is, but that
>> sounds like a possible DOS to me.
> Okay, reasonable point.
>
>> Can you put this check in hardcode_find_bmc()? Thats the only place where
>> the hardcoded addresses are used, and a check there won't affect anything
>> else.
> I could do that. I presume you'd want hardcode_find_bmc() to return 1 in that
> case without doing anything else. Another possibility is to give a warning
> and then clear ports[], addrs[] and irqs[].
>
Just returning -EPERM from that routine is fine, without doing anything
else. You can basically just move your check to the top of that
routine.
>> Also, the error message sounds a little vague to me. If I was a sysadmin
>> and got this, I wouldn't be sure what was going on. Maybe something like:
>> The kernel is locked down, but hard-coded device addresses were given on
>> the driver command line. Ignoring these, but this is a possible security
>> issue.
>>
>> That's fairly wordy, but it gets the point across. You could also move the
>> pr_err() into kernel_is_locked_down() and pass in the prefix, since there is
>> basically the same pr_err() after every check.
> I don't think your suggested summary quite gets it right. A lot of drivers,
> sound drivers, for example, that aren't really critical can simply be
> disabled - and some have to be disabled because there's no other way to
> configure them.
Yeah. My main issue was that the sysadmin would see this and not
have any idea what was going on.
>
> It would have to be more like pr_err("Hard-coded device addresses, irqs and
> dma channels are not permitted when the kernel is locked down."), possibly
> with the addition of either "The driver has been disabled" or "These settings
> have been ignored".
That sounds better than what I had.
-corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-29 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-16 21:47 [PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown David Howells
2016-11-16 21:47 ` [PATCH 01/16] Add the ability to lock down access to the running kernel image David Howells
2016-11-16 22:20 ` Borislav Petkov
2016-11-16 22:40 ` David Howells
2016-12-25 21:20 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-25 21:44 ` David Howells
2016-11-16 21:47 ` [PATCH 02/16] efi: Get the secure boot status David Howells
2016-11-17 12:37 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-22 0:31 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86/efi: Allow invocation of arbitrary runtime services David Howells
2016-11-22 10:20 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-22 14:17 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 14:58 ` Joe Perches
2016-11-22 15:52 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 16:25 ` Joe Perches
2016-11-22 16:40 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 16:51 ` Joe Perches
2016-11-22 0:31 ` [PATCH 2/6] arm/efi: " David Howells
2016-11-22 0:31 ` [PATCH 3/6] efi: Add SHIM and image security database GUID definitions David Howells
2016-11-22 0:32 ` [PATCH 4/6] efi: Get the secure boot status David Howells
2016-11-22 10:44 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-22 10:49 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-22 14:47 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 20:30 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-23 0:02 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 14:52 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 20:36 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-22 14:57 ` David Howells
2016-11-22 0:32 ` [PATCH 5/6] efi: Disable secure boot if shim is in insecure mode David Howells
2016-11-22 13:03 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-22 0:32 ` [PATCH 6/6] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit David Howells
2016-11-22 13:04 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-21 11:42 ` [PATCH 02/16] efi: Get the secure boot status David Howells
2016-11-21 11:52 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 12:41 ` David Howells
2016-11-21 13:14 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 15:17 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-21 15:25 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-21 11:46 ` David Howells
2016-11-21 19:58 ` Lukas Wunner
2016-11-16 21:47 ` [PATCH 03/16] efi: Disable secure boot if shim is in insecure mode David Howells
2016-11-16 21:47 ` [PATCH 04/16] efi: Lock down the kernel if booted in secure boot mode David Howells
2016-11-16 21:47 ` [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit David Howells
2016-11-17 21:58 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-18 11:58 ` Josh Boyer
2016-11-18 12:10 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-18 17:28 ` David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 06/16] Add a sysrq option to exit secure boot mode David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 07/16] kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 08/16] Copy secure_boot flag in boot params across kexec reboot David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 09/16] hibernate: Disable when the kernel is locked down David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 10/16] PCI: Lock down BAR access " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 11/16] x86: Lock down IO port " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 12/16] ACPI: Limit access to custom_method " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 13/16] asus-wmi: Restrict debugfs interface " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:48 ` [PATCH 14/16] Restrict /dev/mem and /dev/kmem " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:49 ` [PATCH 15/16] acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel has been " David Howells
2016-11-16 21:49 ` [PATCH 16/16] x86: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is " David Howells
2016-11-16 22:27 ` [PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-21 19:53 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-11-30 14:27 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-16 22:28 ` Justin Forbes
2016-11-21 23:10 ` [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed David Howells
2016-11-22 6:12 ` Dominik Brodowski
2016-11-23 12:58 ` David Howells
2016-11-23 19:21 ` Dominik Brodowski
2016-11-24 17:34 ` David Howells
2016-11-24 20:19 ` Dominik Brodowski
2016-11-25 14:49 ` David Howells
2016-11-28 22:32 ` Corey Minyard
2016-11-29 0:11 ` David Howells
2016-11-29 0:23 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2016-11-29 14:03 ` David Howells
2016-11-29 14:35 ` Corey Minyard
2016-11-30 14:41 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-11-30 16:25 ` David Howells
2016-11-29 10:40 ` David Howells
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