From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752682AbcLCOj2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:39:28 -0500 Received: from saturn.retrosnub.co.uk ([178.18.118.26]:57090 "EHLO saturn.retrosnub.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752016AbcLCOj0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:39:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/iio/ To: William Breathitt Gray , David Howells References: <148059537897.31612.9461043954611464597.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <148059545558.31612.1279403857733187213.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20161201135025.GB30135@sophia> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, minyard@acm.org, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org From: Jonathan Cameron Message-ID: <627966ae-2071-e755-5506-6b98b97e0f8f@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 09:05:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161201135025.GB30135@sophia> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/12/16 13:50, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:30:55PM +0000, David Howells wrote: >> 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/iio/. >> >> Suggested-by: One Thousand Gnomes >> Signed-off-by: David Howells >> cc: William Breathitt Gray >> cc: Jonathan Cameron >> cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org > > Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray Hi David, I'm on a train so can't check the original thread right now (and will probably forget to do so later!). I am guessing the new functions are introduced earlier in the series? Hence for now I'll assume you want to merge this lot in one go. Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron Shout if you want me to take this via the IIO tree after the merge window closes. Thanks, Jonathan > >> --- >> >> drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c | 2 +- >> drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c | 2 +- >> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c b/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c >> index 7e3645749eaf..a805bd543acb 100644 >> --- a/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c >> +++ b/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c >> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ >> >> static unsigned int base[max_num_isa_dev(STX104_EXTENT)]; >> static unsigned int num_stx104; >> -module_param_array(base, uint, &num_stx104, 0); >> +module_param_hw_array(base, uint, ioport, &num_stx104, 0); >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(base, "Apex Embedded Systems STX104 base addresses"); >> >> /** >> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c b/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c >> index 5a743e2a779d..dac086129edf 100644 >> --- a/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c >> +++ b/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c >> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ >> >> static unsigned int base[max_num_isa_dev(CIO_DAC_EXTENT)]; >> static unsigned int num_cio_dac; >> -module_param_array(base, uint, &num_cio_dac, 0); >> +module_param_hw_array(base, uint, ioport, &num_cio_dac, 0); >> MODULE_PARM_DESC(base, "Measurement Computing CIO-DAC base addresses"); >> >> /** >> > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >