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I have an experimental setup where almost every possible system
service (even early startup ones) runs in separate namespace, using a
dedicated, minimal file system. In process of minimizing the contents
of the file systems with regards to modules and firmware files, I
noticed that in my system, the firmware files are loaded from three
different mount namespaces, those of systemd-udevd, init and
systemd-networkd. The logic of the source namespace is not very clear,
it seems to depend on the driver, but the namespace of the current
process is used.
So, this patch tries to make things a bit clearer and changes the
loading of firmware files only from the mount namespace of init. This
may also improve security, though I think that using firmware files as
attack vector could be too impractical anyway.
Later, it might make sense to make the mount namespace configurable,
for example with a new file in /proc/sys/kernel/firmware_config/. That
would allow a dedicated file system only for firmware files and those
need not be present anywhere else. This configurability would make
more sense if made also for kernel modules and /sbin/modprobe. Modules
are already loaded from init namespace (usermodehelper uses kthreadd
namespace) except when directly loaded by systemd-udevd.
Instead of using the mount namespace of the current process to load
firmware files, use the mount namespace of init process.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/bb46ebae-4746-90d9-ec5b-fce4c9328c86@gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0e3f7653-c59d-9341-9db2-c88f5b988c68@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200123125839.37168-1-toiwoton@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch adds the test cases for checking compressed firmware load.
Two more cases are added to fw_filesystem.sh:
- Both a plain file and an xz file are present, and load the former
- Only an xz file is present, and load without '.xz' suffix
The tests are enabled only when CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS is enabled
and xz program is installed.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is a patch to the tools/testing/selftests/firmware/fw_run_tests.sh
file which fixes a bug which calls to a wrong function name,which in turn
blocks the execution of certain tests.
Signed-off-by: Jeffrin Jose T <jeffrin@rajagiritech.edu.in>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Since we now have knobs to twiddle what used to be set on kernel
configurations we can build one base kernel configuration and modify
behaviour to mimic such kernel configurations to test them.
Provided you build a kernel with:
CONFIG_TEST_FIRMWARE=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
We should now be able test all possible kernel configurations
when FW_LOADER=y. Note that when FW_LOADER=m we just don't provide
the built-in functionality of the built-in firmware.
If you're on an old kernel and either don't have /proc/config.gz
(CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC) or haven't enabled CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
we cannot run these dynamic tests, so just run both scripts just
as we used to before making blunt assumptions about your setup
and requirements exactly as we did before.
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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