From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
minyard@acm.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport)
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2016 10:54:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32245.1481021658@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161205154714.GA3353@kroah.com>
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > Because Alan says that locking down the module parameters needs to be done
> > first. Since I had to go through and modify each module parameter to mark the
> > hardware config ones, it seemed like a good opportunity to label their type
> > (ioport, iomem, irq, etc.) whilst I was at it.
> >
> > > Then just mark them all as "bad", why pick and choose?
> >
> > Because some drivers, IPMI for example, can also be autoconfigured via PCI,
> > PNP, ACPI or whatever and still be useful, if not important, to the system's
> > operation.
> >
> > Simply marking all drivers that can be so configured as "bad" and rejecting
> > them outright in lockdown mode is a non-starter.
>
> Sorry, I meant to mark all of these types of attributes as "bad", not
> trying to classify all of the different types of attributes, given that
> you will probably want to just ban all of them or none, right?
That was my intent. However, since I was touching every hardware module param
anyway, it seemed like a good thing to add. At least now one can grep for
every config param that explicitly sets a DMA channel, for example.
> I'll defer to Alan as to what he feels is needed here, given that this
> patchset isn't being shipped by anyone I think it's odd to somehow make
> this a pre-requisite for anything to be merged as no real user of the
> patchset seemed to feel this type of thing was needed :)
But unless I post it, no one's going to review it. Granted, I should probably
have stuck "RFC" in the subject.
> > (4) System blacklist. List hashes to be blacklisted. This is independent
> > of all other series.
>
> These are hashes of what?
Hashes of module content, kexec image content, X.509 toBeSigned content,
firmware blobs. Things that are going to get hashes blacklisted in the UEFI
database.
> I think patch 3 is going to be the "hardest", along with 2, given the
> large area it touches. Why not work on the other bits first?
Because not everyone agrees with you on the order. Further, some of the bits
are independent - (2) vs (4)/(5) for example. Besides, I have patchsets for
(1) and (3). There is a patch in (3) that depends on (2), but that could be
moved across.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-06 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-01 12:29 [PATCH 00/39] Annotate hw config module params for future lockdown David Howells
2016-12-01 12:29 ` [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells
2016-12-01 15:01 ` Greg KH
2016-12-02 3:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2016-12-02 6:55 ` Greg KH
2016-12-02 7:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2016-12-05 21:26 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-12-02 14:59 ` David Howells
2016-12-05 15:47 ` Greg KH
2016-12-06 10:54 ` David Howells [this message]
2016-12-01 16:02 ` David Howells
2016-12-05 21:12 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-12-06 7:11 ` Greg KH
2016-12-06 10:42 ` David Howells
2016-12-06 10:50 ` Greg KH
2016-12-01 12:29 ` [PATCH 02/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in arch/x86/mm/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 03/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/char/ipmi/ David Howells
2016-12-01 13:14 ` Corey Minyard
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 04/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/char/mwave/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 05/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/char/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 06/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/clocksource/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 07/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/cpufreq/ David Howells
2016-12-01 14:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-12-01 14:19 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 14:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 08/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/gpio/ David Howells
2016-12-01 13:49 ` William Breathitt Gray
2016-12-02 12:55 ` Linus Walleij
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/i2c/ David Howells
2016-12-01 13:47 ` Jean Delvare
2016-12-01 14:12 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 16:06 ` Jean Delvare
2016-12-05 21:09 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-12-01 12:30 ` [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/iio/ David Howells
2016-12-01 13:50 ` William Breathitt Gray
2016-12-03 9:05 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-12-07 13:43 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 11/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/input/ David Howells
2016-12-03 18:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 12/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/isdn/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 13/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/media/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 14/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/misc/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 15/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/mmc/host/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 16/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/appletalk/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:31 ` [PATCH 17/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/arcnet/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 18/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/can/ David Howells
2016-12-01 13:05 ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 19/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/ethernet/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 20/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/hamradio/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 21/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 22/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wan/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 23/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/ David Howells
2016-12-02 5:04 ` Kalle Valo
2016-12-07 13:45 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 24/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/parport/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:32 ` [PATCH 25/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pci/hotplug/ David Howells
2016-12-07 18:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 26/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pcmcia/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 27/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/scsi/ David Howells
2016-12-01 22:05 ` Finn Thain
2017-04-05 14:33 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 28/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/i4l/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 29/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/ David Howells
2016-12-01 14:54 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-01 14:59 ` David Howells
2016-12-01 15:17 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 30/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/speakup/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 31/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/vme/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:33 ` [PATCH 32/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/ David Howells
2016-12-01 15:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 33/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 34/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/watchdog/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 35/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in fs/pstore/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 36/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/drivers/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 37/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/isa/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 38/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/oss/ David Howells
2016-12-01 12:34 ` [PATCH 39/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/pci/ David Howells
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