linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c, branch v5.14

firmware_loader: fix use-after-free in firmware_fallback_sysfs

2021-07-29T15:22:15+00:00

This use-after-free happens when a fw_priv object has been freed but
hasn't been removed from the pending list (pending_fw_head). The next
time fw_load_sysfs_fallback tries to insert into the list, it ends up
accessing the pending_list member of the previously freed fw_priv.

The root cause here is that all code paths that abort the fw load
don't delete it from the pending list. For example:

        _request_firmware()
          -> fw_abort_batch_reqs()
              -> fw_state_aborted()

To fix this, delete the fw_priv from the list in __fw_set_state() if
the new state is DONE or ABORTED. This way, all aborts will remove
the fw_priv from the list. Accordingly, remove calls to list_del_init
that were being made before calling fw_state_(aborted|done).

Also, in fw_load_sysfs_fallback, don't add the fw_priv to the pending
list if it is already aborted. Instead, just jump out and return early.

Fixes: bcfbd3523f3c ("firmware: fix a double abort case with fw_load_sysfs_fallback")
Cc: stable 
Reported-by: syzbot+de271708674e2093097b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+de271708674e2093097b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan 
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Signed-off-by: Anirudh Rayabharam 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210728085107.4141-3-mail@anirudhrb.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init/initramfs.c: do unpacking asynchronously

2021-05-07T07:26:33+00:00

Patch series "background initramfs unpacking, and CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH", v3.

These two patches are independent, but better-together.

The second is a rather trivial patch that simply allows the developer to
change "/sbin/modprobe" to something else - e.g.  the empty string, so
that all request_module() during early boot return -ENOENT early, without
even spawning a usermode helper, needlessly synchronizing with the
initramfs unpacking.

The first patch delegates decompressing the initramfs to a worker thread,
allowing do_initcalls() in main.c to proceed to the device_ and late_
initcalls without waiting for that decompression (and populating of
rootfs) to finish.  Obviously, some of those later calls may rely on the
initramfs being available, so I've added synchronization points in the
firmware loader and usermodehelper paths - there might be other places
that would need this, but so far no one has been able to think of any
places I have missed.

There's not much to win if most of the functionality needed during boot is
only available as modules.  But systems with a custom-made .config and
initramfs can boot faster, partly due to utilizing more than one cpu
earlier, partly by avoiding known-futile modprobe calls (which would still
trigger synchronization with the initramfs unpacking, thus eliminating
most of the first benefit).

This patch (of 2):

Most of the boot process doesn't actually need anything from the
initramfs, until of course PID1 is to be executed.  So instead of doing
the decompressing and populating of the initramfs synchronously in
populate_rootfs() itself, push that off to a worker thread.

This is primarily motivated by an embedded ppc target, where unpacking
even the rather modest sized initramfs takes 0.6 seconds, which is long
enough that the external watchdog becomes unhappy that it doesn't get
attention soon enough.  By doing the initramfs decompression in a worker
thread, we get to do the device_initcalls and hence start petting the
watchdog much sooner.

Normal desktops might benefit as well.  On my mostly stock Ubuntu kernel,
my initramfs is a 26M xz-compressed blob, decompressing to around 126M.
That takes almost two seconds:

[    0.201454] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs...
[    1.976633] Freeing initrd memory: 29416K

Before this patch, these lines occur consecutively in dmesg.  With this
patch, the timestamps on these two lines is roughly the same as above, but
with 172 lines inbetween - so more than one cpu has been kept busy doing
work that would otherwise only happen after the populate_rootfs()
finished.

Should one of the initcalls done after rootfs_initcall time (i.e., device_
and late_ initcalls) need something from the initramfs (say, a kernel
module or a firmware blob), it will simply wait for the initramfs
unpacking to be done before proceeding, which should in theory make this
completely safe.

But if some driver pokes around in the filesystem directly and not via one
of the official kernel interfaces (i.e.  request_firmware*(),
call_usermodehelper*) that theory may not hold - also, I certainly might
have missed a spot when sprinkling wait_for_initramfs().  So there is an
escape hatch in the form of an initramfs_async= command line parameter.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210313212528.2956377-2-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Jessica Yu 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Takashi Iwai 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf()

2020-10-05T11:37:04+00:00

Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf() to allow for portions of a
firmware file to be read into a buffer. This is needed when large firmware
must be loaded in portions from a file on memory constrained systems.

Signed-off-by: Scott Branden 
Co-developed-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-16-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: Store opt_flags in fw_priv

2020-10-05T11:37:04+00:00

Instead of passing opt_flags around so much, store it in the private
structure so it can be examined by internals without needing to add more
arguments to functions.

Co-developed-by: Scott Branden 
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-15-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernel_file_read: Add "offset" arg for partial reads

2020-10-05T11:37:04+00:00

To perform partial reads, callers of kernel_read_file*() must have a
non-NULL file_size argument and a preallocated buffer. The new "offset"
argument can then be used to seek to specific locations in the file to
fill the buffer to, at most, "buf_size" per call.

Where possible, the LSM hooks can report whether a full file has been
read or not so that the contents can be reasoned about.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-14-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernel_read_file: Add file_size output argument

2020-10-05T11:37:03+00:00

In preparation for adding partial read support, add an optional output
argument to kernel_read_file*() that reports the file size so callers
can reason more easily about their reading progress.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Acked-by: Scott Branden 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-8-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernel_read_file: Remove redundant size argument

2020-10-05T11:34:18+00:00

In preparation for refactoring kernel_read_file*(), remove the redundant
"size" argument which is not needed: it can be included in the return
code, with callers adjusted. (VFS reads already cannot be larger than
INT_MAX.)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
Acked-by: Scott Branden 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-6-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernel_read_file: Split into separate include file

2020-10-05T11:34:18+00:00

Move kernel_read_file* out of linux/fs.h to its own linux/kernel_read_file.h
include file. That header gets pulled in just about everywhere
and doesn't really need functions not related to the general fs interface.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Scott Branden 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706232309.12010-2-scott.branden@broadcom.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-4-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER enum

2020-10-05T11:34:18+00:00

FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER is a "how", not a "what", and confuses the LSMs
that are interested in filtering between types of things. The "how"
should be an internal detail made uninteresting to the LSMs.

Fixes: a098ecd2fa7d ("firmware: support loading into a pre-allocated buffer")
Fixes: fd90bc559bfb ("ima: based on policy verify firmware signatures (pre-allocated buffer)")
Fixes: 4f0496d8ffa3 ("ima: based on policy warn about loading firmware (pre-allocated buffer)")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar 
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain 
Acked-by: Scott Branden 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware_loader: fix memory leak for paged buffer

2020-08-28T09:32:07+00:00

vfree() is being called on paged buffer allocated
using alloc_page() and mapped using vmap().

Freeing of pages in vfree() relies on nr_pages of
struct vm_struct. vmap() does not update nr_pages.
It can lead to memory leaks.

Fixes: ddaf29fd9bb6 ("firmware: Free temporary page table after vmapping")
Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood 
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1597957070-27185-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman