On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:32:58PM +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/pci/hotplug/. > > Suggested-by: One Thousand Gnomes <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> > cc: Scott Murray <[email protected]> > cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> > cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> I assume you'll merge this via some non-PCI tree. Let me know if you need anything else from me. > --- > > drivers/pci/hotplug/cpcihp_generic.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/cpcihp_generic.c > b/drivers/pci/hotplug/cpcihp_generic.c > index 88a44a707b96..bbf9cf8aeaad 100644 > --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/cpcihp_generic.c > +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/cpcihp_generic.c > @@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ module_param(first_slot, byte, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(first_slot, "Hotswap bus first slot number"); > module_param(last_slot, byte, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(last_slot, "Hotswap bus last slot number"); > -module_param(port, ushort, 0); > +module_param_hw(port, ushort, ioport, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(port, "#ENUM signal I/O port"); > module_param(enum_bit, uint, 0); > MODULE_PARM_DESC(enum_bit, "#ENUM signal bit (0-7)"); > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in > the body of a message to [email protected] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
