From: Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org>

Writing to MSRs should not be allowed if the kernel is locked down, since
it could lead to execution of arbitrary code in kernel mode.  Based on a
patch by Kees Cook.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mj...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowe...@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
cc: x...@kernel.org
---
 arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
index 4588414e2561..731be1be52b6 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ static ssize_t msr_write(struct file *file, const char __user 
*buf,
        int err = 0;
        ssize_t bytes = 0;
 
+       if (kernel_is_locked_down("Direct MSR access", LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        if (count % 8)
                return -EINVAL; /* Invalid chunk size */
 
@@ -135,6 +138,11 @@ static long msr_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int ioc, 
unsigned long arg)
                        err = -EFAULT;
                        break;
                }
+               if (kernel_is_locked_down("Direct MSR access",
+                                         LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY)) {
+                       err = -EPERM;
+                       break;
+               }
                err = wrmsr_safe_regs_on_cpu(cpu, regs);
                if (err)
                        break;
-- 
2.21.0.392.gf8f6787159e-goog

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