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<title>modules, lock around setting of MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED</title>
<updated>2014-11-14T18:10:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Prarit Bhargava</name>
<email>prarit@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2014-10-13T16:21:39+00:00</published>
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commit d3051b489aa81ca9ba62af366149ef42b8dae97c upstream.

A panic was seen in the following sitation.

There are two threads running on the system. The first thread is a system
monitoring thread that is reading /proc/modules. The second thread is
loading and unloading a module (in this example I'm using my simple
dummy-module.ko).  Note, in the "real world" this occurred with the qlogic
driver module.

When doing this, the following panic occurred:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at kernel/module.c:3739!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
 Modules linked in: binfmt_misc sg nfsv3 rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw igb gf128mul glue_helper iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ablk_helper ptp sb_edac cryptd pps_core edac_core shpchp i2c_i801 pcspkr wmi lpc_ich ioatdma mfd_core dca ipmi_si nfsd ipmi_msghandler auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_common mgag200 syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm isci drm libsas ahci libahci scsi_transport_sas libata i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: dummy_module]
 CPU: 37 PID: 186343 Comm: cat Tainted: GF          O--------------   3.10.0+ #7
 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013
 task: ffff8807fd2d8000 ti: ffff88080fa7c000 task.ti: ffff88080fa7c000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88080fa7fe18  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffffffa03b5200 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffff88080fa7fe38 RDI: ffffffffa03b5000
 RBP: ffff88080fa7fe28 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffffffffa03b5000
 R13: ffffffffa03b5008 R14: ffffffffa03b5200 R15: ffffffffa03b5000
 FS:  00007f6ae57ef740(0000) GS:ffff88101e7a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000404f70 CR3: 0000000ffed48000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Stack:
  ffffffffa03b5200 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fe70 ffffffff810d666c
  ffff88081e807300 000000002e0f2fbf 0000000000000000 ffff88100f257b00
  ffffffffa03b5008 ffff88080fa7ff48 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fee0
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d666c&gt;] m_show+0x19c/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811e4d7e&gt;] seq_read+0x16e/0x3b0
  [&lt;ffffffff812281ed&gt;] proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff811c0f2c&gt;] vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
  [&lt;ffffffff811c1a58&gt;] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81605829&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 48 63 c2 83 c2 01 c6 04 03 29 48 63 d2 eb d9 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 63 d2 c6 04 13 2d 41 8b 0c 24 8d 50 02 83 f9 01 75 b2 eb cb &lt;0f&gt; 0b 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
  RSP &lt;ffff88080fa7fe18&gt;

    Consider the two processes running on the system.

    CPU 0 (/proc/modules reader)
    CPU 1 (loading/unloading module)

    CPU 0 opens /proc/modules, and starts displaying data for each module by
    traversing the modules list via fs/seq_file.c:seq_open() and
    fs/seq_file.c:seq_read().  For each module in the modules list, seq_read
    does

            op-&gt;start()  &lt;-- this is a pointer to m_start()
            op-&gt;show()   &lt;- this is a pointer to m_show()
            op-&gt;stop()   &lt;-- this is a pointer to m_stop()

    The m_start(), m_show(), and m_stop() module functions are defined in
    kernel/module.c. The m_start() and m_stop() functions acquire and release
    the module_mutex respectively.

    ie) When reading /proc/modules, the module_mutex is acquired and released
    for each module.

    m_show() is called with the module_mutex held.  It accesses the module
    struct data and attempts to write out module data.  It is in this code
    path that the above BUG_ON() warning is encountered, specifically m_show()
    calls

    static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
    {
            int bx = 0;

            BUG_ON(mod-&gt;state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);
    ...

    The other thread, CPU 1, in unloading the module calls the syscall
    delete_module() defined in kernel/module.c.  The module_mutex is acquired
    for a short time, and then released.  free_module() is called without the
    module_mutex.  free_module() then sets mod-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED,
    also without the module_mutex.  Some additional code is called and then the
    module_mutex is reacquired to remove the module from the modules list:

        /* Now we can delete it from the lists */
        mutex_lock(&amp;module_mutex);
        stop_machine(__unlink_module, mod, NULL);
        mutex_unlock(&amp;module_mutex);

This is the sequence of events that leads to the panic.

CPU 1 is removing dummy_module via delete_module().  It acquires the
module_mutex, and then releases it.  CPU 1 has NOT set dummy_module-&gt;state to
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED yet.

CPU 0, which is reading the /proc/modules, acquires the module_mutex and
acquires a pointer to the dummy_module which is still in the modules list.
CPU 0 calls m_show for dummy_module.  The check in m_show() for
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED passed for dummy_module even though it is being
torn down.

Meanwhile CPU 1, which has been continuing to remove dummy_module without
holding the module_mutex, now calls free_module() and sets
dummy_module-&gt;state to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.

CPU 0 now calls module_flags() with dummy_module and ...

static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
{
        int bx = 0;

        BUG_ON(mod-&gt;state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);

and BOOM.

Acquire and release the module_mutex lock around the setting of
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED in the teardown path, which should resolve the
problem.

Testing: In the unpatched kernel I can panic the system within 1 minute by
doing

while (true) do insmod dummy_module.ko; rmmod dummy_module.ko; done

and

while (true) do cat /proc/modules; done

in separate terminals.

In the patched kernel I was able to run just over one hour without seeing
any issues.  I also verified the output of panic via sysrq-c and the output
of /proc/modules looks correct for all three states for the dummy_module.

        dummy_module 12661 0 - Unloading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE-)
        dummy_module 12661 0 - Live 0xffffffffa03bb000 (OE)
        dummy_module 14015 1 - Loading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE+)

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d3051b489aa81ca9ba62af366149ef42b8dae97c upstream.

A panic was seen in the following sitation.

There are two threads running on the system. The first thread is a system
monitoring thread that is reading /proc/modules. The second thread is
loading and unloading a module (in this example I'm using my simple
dummy-module.ko).  Note, in the "real world" this occurred with the qlogic
driver module.

When doing this, the following panic occurred:

 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at kernel/module.c:3739!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
 Modules linked in: binfmt_misc sg nfsv3 rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs fscache intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm_intel kvm crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel lrw igb gf128mul glue_helper iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support ablk_helper ptp sb_edac cryptd pps_core edac_core shpchp i2c_i801 pcspkr wmi lpc_ich ioatdma mfd_core dca ipmi_si nfsd ipmi_msghandler auth_rpcgss nfs_acl lockd sunrpc xfs libcrc32c sr_mod cdrom sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_common mgag200 syscopyarea sysfillrect sysimgblt i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper ttm isci drm libsas ahci libahci scsi_transport_sas libata i2c_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: dummy_module]
 CPU: 37 PID: 186343 Comm: cat Tainted: GF          O--------------   3.10.0+ #7
 Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CP/S2600CP, BIOS RMLSDP.86I.00.29.D696.1311111329 11/11/2013
 task: ffff8807fd2d8000 ti: ffff88080fa7c000 task.ti: ffff88080fa7c000
 RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
 RSP: 0018:ffff88080fa7fe18  EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffffffa03b5200 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffff88080fa7fe38 RDI: ffffffffa03b5000
 RBP: ffff88080fa7fe28 R08: 0000000000000010 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: ffffffffa03b5000
 R13: ffffffffa03b5008 R14: ffffffffa03b5200 R15: ffffffffa03b5000
 FS:  00007f6ae57ef740(0000) GS:ffff88101e7a0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000404f70 CR3: 0000000ffed48000 CR4: 00000000001407e0
 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
 Stack:
  ffffffffa03b5200 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fe70 ffffffff810d666c
  ffff88081e807300 000000002e0f2fbf 0000000000000000 ffff88100f257b00
  ffffffffa03b5008 ffff88080fa7ff48 ffff8810101e4800 ffff88080fa7fee0
 Call Trace:
  [&lt;ffffffff810d666c&gt;] m_show+0x19c/0x1e0
  [&lt;ffffffff811e4d7e&gt;] seq_read+0x16e/0x3b0
  [&lt;ffffffff812281ed&gt;] proc_reg_read+0x3d/0x80
  [&lt;ffffffff811c0f2c&gt;] vfs_read+0x9c/0x170
  [&lt;ffffffff811c1a58&gt;] SyS_read+0x58/0xb0
  [&lt;ffffffff81605829&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
 Code: 48 63 c2 83 c2 01 c6 04 03 29 48 63 d2 eb d9 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 48 63 d2 c6 04 13 2d 41 8b 0c 24 8d 50 02 83 f9 01 75 b2 eb cb &lt;0f&gt; 0b 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41
 RIP  [&lt;ffffffff810d64c5&gt;] module_flags+0xb5/0xc0
  RSP &lt;ffff88080fa7fe18&gt;

    Consider the two processes running on the system.

    CPU 0 (/proc/modules reader)
    CPU 1 (loading/unloading module)

    CPU 0 opens /proc/modules, and starts displaying data for each module by
    traversing the modules list via fs/seq_file.c:seq_open() and
    fs/seq_file.c:seq_read().  For each module in the modules list, seq_read
    does

            op-&gt;start()  &lt;-- this is a pointer to m_start()
            op-&gt;show()   &lt;- this is a pointer to m_show()
            op-&gt;stop()   &lt;-- this is a pointer to m_stop()

    The m_start(), m_show(), and m_stop() module functions are defined in
    kernel/module.c. The m_start() and m_stop() functions acquire and release
    the module_mutex respectively.

    ie) When reading /proc/modules, the module_mutex is acquired and released
    for each module.

    m_show() is called with the module_mutex held.  It accesses the module
    struct data and attempts to write out module data.  It is in this code
    path that the above BUG_ON() warning is encountered, specifically m_show()
    calls

    static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
    {
            int bx = 0;

            BUG_ON(mod-&gt;state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);
    ...

    The other thread, CPU 1, in unloading the module calls the syscall
    delete_module() defined in kernel/module.c.  The module_mutex is acquired
    for a short time, and then released.  free_module() is called without the
    module_mutex.  free_module() then sets mod-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED,
    also without the module_mutex.  Some additional code is called and then the
    module_mutex is reacquired to remove the module from the modules list:

        /* Now we can delete it from the lists */
        mutex_lock(&amp;module_mutex);
        stop_machine(__unlink_module, mod, NULL);
        mutex_unlock(&amp;module_mutex);

This is the sequence of events that leads to the panic.

CPU 1 is removing dummy_module via delete_module().  It acquires the
module_mutex, and then releases it.  CPU 1 has NOT set dummy_module-&gt;state to
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED yet.

CPU 0, which is reading the /proc/modules, acquires the module_mutex and
acquires a pointer to the dummy_module which is still in the modules list.
CPU 0 calls m_show for dummy_module.  The check in m_show() for
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED passed for dummy_module even though it is being
torn down.

Meanwhile CPU 1, which has been continuing to remove dummy_module without
holding the module_mutex, now calls free_module() and sets
dummy_module-&gt;state to MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED.

CPU 0 now calls module_flags() with dummy_module and ...

static char *module_flags(struct module *mod, char *buf)
{
        int bx = 0;

        BUG_ON(mod-&gt;state == MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED);

and BOOM.

Acquire and release the module_mutex lock around the setting of
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED in the teardown path, which should resolve the
problem.

Testing: In the unpatched kernel I can panic the system within 1 minute by
doing

while (true) do insmod dummy_module.ko; rmmod dummy_module.ko; done

and

while (true) do cat /proc/modules; done

in separate terminals.

In the patched kernel I was able to run just over one hour without seeing
any issues.  I also verified the output of panic via sysrq-c and the output
of /proc/modules looks correct for all three states for the dummy_module.

        dummy_module 12661 0 - Unloading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE-)
        dummy_module 12661 0 - Live 0xffffffffa03bb000 (OE)
        dummy_module 14015 1 - Loading 0xffffffffa03a5000 (OE+)

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava &lt;prarit@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>module: Clean up ro/nx after early module load failures</title>
<updated>2014-08-15T19:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-15T18:43:37+00:00</published>
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The commit

    4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.

introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or
if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed
while still read-only.  Anything that reuses that memory will crash
as soon as it tries to write to it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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The commit

    4982223e51e8 module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.

introduced a regression: if a module fails to parse its arguments or
if mod_sysfs_setup fails, then the module's memory will be freed
while still read-only.  Anything that reuses that memory will crash
as soon as it tries to write to it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.16
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2014-08-11T04:31:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-11T04:31:58+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "This finally applies the stricter sysfs perms checking we pulled out
  before last merge window.  A few stragglers are fixed (thanks
  linux-next!)"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-dump.c: fix world-writable sysfs files
  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c: fix world-writable sysfs files
  drivers/video/fbdev/s3c2410fb.c: don't make debug world-writable.
  ARM: avoid ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols
  scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching
  scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning
  sysfs: disallow world-writable files.
  module: return bool from within_module*()
  module: add within_module() function
  modules: Fix build error in moduleloader.h
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<pre>
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "This finally applies the stricter sysfs perms checking we pulled out
  before last merge window.  A few stragglers are fixed (thanks
  linux-next!)"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-dump.c: fix world-writable sysfs files
  arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-elog.c: fix world-writable sysfs files
  drivers/video/fbdev/s3c2410fb.c: don't make debug world-writable.
  ARM: avoid ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols
  scripts: modpost: Remove numeric suffix pattern matching
  scripts: modpost: fix compilation warning
  sysfs: disallow world-writable files.
  module: return bool from within_module*()
  module: add within_module() function
  modules: Fix build error in moduleloader.h
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ARM: avoid ARM binutils leaking ELF local symbols</title>
<updated>2014-07-27T11:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-26T21:59:01+00:00</published>
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Symbols starting with .L are ELF local symbols and should not appear
in ELF symbol tables.  However, unfortunately ARM binutils leaks the
.LANCHOR symbols into the symbol table, which leads kallsyms to report
these symbols rather than the real name.  It is not very useful when
%pf reports symbols against these leaked .LANCHOR symbols.

Arrange for kallsyms to ignore these symbols using the same mechanism
that is used for the ARM mapping symbols.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Symbols starting with .L are ELF local symbols and should not appear
in ELF symbol tables.  However, unfortunately ARM binutils leaks the
.LANCHOR symbols into the symbol table, which leads kallsyms to report
these symbols rather than the real name.  It is not very useful when
%pf reports symbols against these leaked .LANCHOR symbols.

Arrange for kallsyms to ignore these symbols using the same mechanism
that is used for the ARM mapping symbols.

Signed-off-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>module: add within_module() function</title>
<updated>2014-07-27T11:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Mladek</name>
<email>pmladek@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-26T21:54:01+00:00</published>
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It is just a small optimization that allows to replace few
occurrences of within_module_init() || within_module_core()
with a single call.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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It is just a small optimization that allows to replace few
occurrences of within_module_init() || within_module_core()
with a single call.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: fips - only panic on bad/missing crypto mod signatures</title>
<updated>2014-07-03T13:38:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarod Wilson</name>
<email>jarod@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-02T19:37:30+00:00</published>
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Per further discussion with NIST, the requirements for FIPS state that
we only need to panic the system on failed kernel module signature checks
for crypto subsystem modules. This moves the fips-mode-only module
signature check out of the generic module loading code, into the crypto
subsystem, at points where we can catch both algorithm module loads and
mode module loads. At the same time, make CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS dependent on
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG, as this is entirely necessary for FIPS mode.

v2: remove extraneous blank line, perform checks in static inline
function, drop no longer necessary fips.h include.

CC: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
CC: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Stephan Mueller &lt;stephan.mueller@atsec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson &lt;jarod@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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Per further discussion with NIST, the requirements for FIPS state that
we only need to panic the system on failed kernel module signature checks
for crypto subsystem modules. This moves the fips-mode-only module
signature check out of the generic module loading code, into the crypto
subsystem, at points where we can catch both algorithm module loads and
mode module loads. At the same time, make CONFIG_CRYPTO_FIPS dependent on
CONFIG_MODULE_SIG, as this is entirely necessary for FIPS mode.

v2: remove extraneous blank line, perform checks in static inline
function, drop no longer necessary fips.h include.

CC: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
CC: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
CC: Stephan Mueller &lt;stephan.mueller@atsec.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson &lt;jarod@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2014-06-11T23:09:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-11T23:09:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4251c2a67011801caecd63671f26dd8c9aedb24c'/>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can
  re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks,
  but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).

  Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
  handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).

  Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
  parse_args()"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
  samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c
  cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare
  Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx
  param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
  modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can
  re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks,
  but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).

  Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
  handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).

  Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
  parse_args()"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
  samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c
  cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare
  Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx
  param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
  modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()
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<entry>
<title>module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.</title>
<updated>2014-05-14T01:25:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-14T01:24:19+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=4982223e51e8ea9d09bb33c8323b5ec1877b2b51'/>
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We currently set RO &amp; NX on modules very late: after we move them from
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED to MODULE_STATE_COMING, and after we call
parse_args() (which can exec code in the module).

Much better is to do it in complete_formation() and then call
the notifier.

This means that the notifiers will be called on a module which
is already RO &amp; NX, so that may cause problems (ftrace already
changed so they're unaffected).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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We currently set RO &amp; NX on modules very late: after we move them from
MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED to MODULE_STATE_COMING, and after we call
parse_args() (which can exec code in the module).

Much better is to do it in complete_formation() and then call
the notifier.

This means that the notifiers will be called on a module which
is already RO &amp; NX, so that may cause problems (ftrace already
changed so they're unaffected).

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2014-05-01T17:35:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-01T17:35:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=60b88f3941e1baa200d01481b40e963c44243672'/>
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Pull module fixes from Rusty Russell:
 "Fixed one missing place for the new taint flag, and remove a warning
  giving only false positives (now we finally figured out why)"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: remove warning about waiting module removal.
  Fix: tracing: use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag
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Pull module fixes from Rusty Russell:
 "Fixed one missing place for the new taint flag, and remove a warning
  giving only false positives (now we finally figured out why)"

* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: remove warning about waiting module removal.
  Fix: tracing: use 'E' instead of 'X' for unsigned module taint flag
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>ftrace/module: Hardcode ftrace_module_init() call into load_module()</title>
<updated>2014-04-28T14:37:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-24T14:40:12+00:00</published>
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A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----
  load_module()
   module-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_COMING

				register_ftrace_function()
				 mutex_lock(&amp;ftrace_lock);
				 ftrace_startup()
				  update_ftrace_function();
				   ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
				    set_all_module_text_rw();
				   &lt;enables-ftrace&gt;
				    ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
				     set_all_module_text_ro();

				[ here all module text is set to RO,
				  including the module that is
				  loading!! ]

   blocking_notifier_call_chain(MODULE_STATE_COMING);
    ftrace_init_module()

     [ tries to modify code, but it's RO, and fails!
       ftrace_bug() is called]

When this race happens, ftrace_bug() will produces a nasty warning and
all of the function tracing features will be disabled until reboot.

The simple solution is to treate module load the same way the core
kernel is treated at boot. To hardcode the ftrace function modification
of converting calls to mcount into nops. This is done in init/main.c
there's no reason it could not be done in load_module(). This gives
a better control of the changes and doesn't tie the state of the
module to its notifiers as much. Ftrace is special, it needs to be
treated as such.

The reason this would work, is that the ftrace_module_init() would be
called while the module is in MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, which is ignored
by the set_all_module_text_ro() call.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395637826-3312-1-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com

Reported-by: Takao Indoh &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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A race exists between module loading and enabling of function tracer.

	CPU 1				CPU 2
	-----				-----
  load_module()
   module-&gt;state = MODULE_STATE_COMING

				register_ftrace_function()
				 mutex_lock(&amp;ftrace_lock);
				 ftrace_startup()
				  update_ftrace_function();
				   ftrace_arch_code_modify_prepare()
				    set_all_module_text_rw();
				   &lt;enables-ftrace&gt;
				    ftrace_arch_code_modify_post_process()
				     set_all_module_text_ro();

				[ here all module text is set to RO,
				  including the module that is
				  loading!! ]

   blocking_notifier_call_chain(MODULE_STATE_COMING);
    ftrace_init_module()

     [ tries to modify code, but it's RO, and fails!
       ftrace_bug() is called]

When this race happens, ftrace_bug() will produces a nasty warning and
all of the function tracing features will be disabled until reboot.

The simple solution is to treate module load the same way the core
kernel is treated at boot. To hardcode the ftrace function modification
of converting calls to mcount into nops. This is done in init/main.c
there's no reason it could not be done in load_module(). This gives
a better control of the changes and doesn't tie the state of the
module to its notifiers as much. Ftrace is special, it needs to be
treated as such.

The reason this would work, is that the ftrace_module_init() would be
called while the module is in MODULE_STATE_UNFORMED, which is ignored
by the set_all_module_text_ro() call.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395637826-3312-1-git-send-email-indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com

Reported-by: Takao Indoh &lt;indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.38+
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
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