On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:58:03 +0100, 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/i2c/. > > Suggested-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> > cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> > cc: Jean Delvare <[email protected]> > cc: [email protected] > (...)
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]> -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
