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authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2011-05-26 12:26:24 +0200
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-05-29 01:50:40 -0400
commit526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3 (patch)
tree7906a3b45703aa730d5e7ebadc36a55aee5417ca
parentaecad432fd68dafa5b3b497c4816fbfce6fd4066 (diff)
ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
With /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method root can write to arbitrary memory and increase his priveleges, even if these are restricted. -> Make this an own debug .config option and warn about the security issue in the config description. -> Still keep acpi/debugfs.c which now only creates an empty /sys/kernel/debug/acpi directory. There might be other users of it later. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: rui.zhang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt5
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/Kconfig15
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/Makefile1
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/custom_method.c100
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/debugfs.c80
5 files changed, 122 insertions, 79 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt b/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
index 3e1d25aee3fb..5f55373dd53b 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt
@@ -66,3 +66,8 @@ Note: We can use a kernel with multiple custom ACPI method running,
But each individual write to debugfs can implement a SINGLE
method override. i.e. if we want to insert/override multiple
ACPI methods, we need to redo step c) ~ g) for multiple times.
+
+Note: Be aware that root can mis-use this driver to modify arbitrary
+ memory and gain additional rights, if root's privileges got
+ restricted (for example if root is not allowed to load additional
+ modules after boot).
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index 3a17ca5fff6f..d918e130bef3 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -380,6 +380,21 @@ config ACPI_HED
which is used to report some hardware errors notified via
SCI, mainly the corrected errors.
+config ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD
+ tristate "Allow ACPI methods to be inserted/replaced at run time"
+ depends on DEBUG_FS
+ default n
+ help
+ This debug facility allows ACPI AML methods to me inserted and/or
+ replaced without rebooting the system. For details refer to:
+ Documentation/acpi/method-customizing.txt.
+
+ NOTE: This option is security sensitive, because it allows arbitrary
+ kernel memory to be written to by root (uid=0) users, allowing them
+ to bypass certain security measures (e.g. if root is not allowed to
+ load additional kernel modules after boot, this feature may be used
+ to override that restriction).
+
source "drivers/acpi/apei/Kconfig"
endif # ACPI
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
index d113fa5100b2..cba0b2334b9b 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SBS) += sbs.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_POWER_METER) += power_meter.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_HED) += hed.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS) += ec_sys.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_METHOD)+= custom_method.o
# processor has its own "processor." module_param namespace
processor-y := processor_driver.o processor_throttling.o
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5d42c2414ae5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/acpi/custom_method.c
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/*
+ * debugfs.c - ACPI debugfs interface to userspace.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/debugfs.h>
+#include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
+
+#include "internal.h"
+
+#define _COMPONENT ACPI_SYSTEM_COMPONENT
+ACPI_MODULE_NAME("custom_method");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+
+static struct dentry *cm_dentry;
+
+/* /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method */
+
+static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf,
+ size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ static char *buf;
+ static u32 max_size;
+ static u32 uncopied_bytes;
+
+ struct acpi_table_header table;
+ acpi_status status;
+
+ if (!(*ppos)) {
+ /* parse the table header to get the table length */
+ if (count <= sizeof(struct acpi_table_header))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (copy_from_user(&table, user_buf,
+ sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length;
+ buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!buf)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+
+ if (buf == NULL)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if ((*ppos > max_size) ||
+ (*ppos + count > max_size) ||
+ (*ppos + count < count) ||
+ (count > uncopied_bytes))
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (copy_from_user(buf + (*ppos), user_buf, count)) {
+ kfree(buf);
+ buf = NULL;
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
+
+ uncopied_bytes -= count;
+ *ppos += count;
+
+ if (!uncopied_bytes) {
+ status = acpi_install_method(buf);
+ kfree(buf);
+ buf = NULL;
+ if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE);
+ }
+
+ return count;
+}
+
+static const struct file_operations cm_fops = {
+ .write = cm_write,
+ .llseek = default_llseek,
+};
+
+static int __init acpi_custom_method_init(void)
+{
+ if (acpi_debugfs_dir == NULL)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
+ cm_dentry = debugfs_create_file("custom_method", S_IWUSR,
+ acpi_debugfs_dir, NULL, &cm_fops);
+ if (cm_dentry == NULL)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static void __exit acpi_custom_method_exit(void)
+{
+ if (cm_dentry)
+ debugfs_remove(cm_dentry);
+ }
+
+module_init(acpi_custom_method_init);
+module_exit(acpi_custom_method_exit);
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c b/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
index e7abc6e3bba0..182a9fc36355 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
*/
#include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/debugfs.h>
#include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
@@ -13,84 +10,9 @@
ACPI_MODULE_NAME("debugfs");
struct dentry *acpi_debugfs_dir;
-static struct dentry *cm_dentry;
-
-/* /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method */
-
-static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf,
- size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
- static char *buf;
- static u32 max_size;
- static u32 uncopied_bytes;
-
- struct acpi_table_header table;
- acpi_status status;
-
- if (!(*ppos)) {
- /* parse the table header to get the table length */
- if (count <= sizeof(struct acpi_table_header))
- return -EINVAL;
- if (copy_from_user(&table, user_buf,
- sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)))
- return -EFAULT;
- uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length;
- buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf)
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
-
- if (buf == NULL)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if ((*ppos > max_size) ||
- (*ppos + count > max_size) ||
- (*ppos + count < count) ||
- (count > uncopied_bytes))
- return -EINVAL;
-
- if (copy_from_user(buf + (*ppos), user_buf, count)) {
- kfree(buf);
- buf = NULL;
- return -EFAULT;
- }
-
- uncopied_bytes -= count;
- *ppos += count;
-
- if (!uncopied_bytes) {
- status = acpi_install_method(buf);
- kfree(buf);
- buf = NULL;
- if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
- return -EINVAL;
- add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE);
- }
-
- return count;
-}
-
-static const struct file_operations cm_fops = {
- .write = cm_write,
- .llseek = default_llseek,
-};
-
-static int __init acpi_custom_method_init(void)
-{
- if (!acpi_debugfs_dir)
- return -ENOENT;
-
- cm_dentry = debugfs_create_file("custom_method", S_IWUSR,
- acpi_debugfs_dir, NULL, &cm_fops);
- if (!cm_dentry)
- return -ENODEV;
-
- return 0;
-}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_debugfs_dir);
void __init acpi_debugfs_init(void)
{
acpi_debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("acpi", NULL);
-
- acpi_custom_method_init();
}