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| author | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2014-08-27 06:22:23 +0930 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2014-08-27 21:54:08 +0930 |
| commit | 91f9d330cc14932084c37751997213cb0e7ea882 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a7494e64787ea72ce4ed86c5298a1b1b7195111 /kernel/params.c | |
| parent | 6a4c264313c4ae32dc53821a9c57e0dc9696fb81 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-91f9d330cc14932084c37751997213cb0e7ea882.tar.gz lwn-91f9d330cc14932084c37751997213cb0e7ea882.zip | |
module: make it possible to have unsafe, tainting module params
Add flags field to struct kernel_params, and add the first flag: unsafe
parameter. Modifying a kernel parameter with the unsafe flag set, either
via the kernel command line or sysfs, will issue a warning and taint the
kernel.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/params.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/params.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c index 8a484fc8bde8..ad8d04563c3a 100644 --- a/kernel/params.c +++ b/kernel/params.c @@ -233,6 +233,7 @@ char *parse_args(const char *doing, #define STANDARD_PARAM_DEF(name, type, format, strtolfn) \ int param_set_##name(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) \ { \ + param_check_unsafe(kp); \ return strtolfn(val, 0, (type *)kp->arg); \ } \ int param_get_##name(char *buffer, const struct kernel_param *kp) \ @@ -265,6 +266,8 @@ int param_set_charp(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) return -ENOSPC; } + param_check_unsafe(kp); + maybe_kfree_parameter(*(char **)kp->arg); /* This is a hack. We can't kmalloc in early boot, and we @@ -302,6 +305,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(param_ops_charp); /* Actually could be a bool or an int, for historical reasons. */ int param_set_bool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) { + param_check_unsafe(kp); + /* No equals means "set"... */ if (!val) val = "1"; @@ -331,6 +336,8 @@ int param_set_invbool(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) bool boolval; struct kernel_param dummy; + param_check_unsafe(kp); + dummy.arg = &boolval; ret = param_set_bool(val, &dummy); if (ret == 0) @@ -357,6 +364,8 @@ int param_set_bint(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) bool v; int ret; + param_check_unsafe(kp); + /* Match bool exactly, by re-using it. */ boolkp = *kp; boolkp.arg = &v; @@ -476,6 +485,8 @@ int param_set_copystring(const char *val, const struct kernel_param *kp) { const struct kparam_string *kps = kp->str; + param_check_unsafe(kp); + if (strlen(val)+1 > kps->maxlen) { pr_err("%s: string doesn't fit in %u chars.\n", kp->name, kps->maxlen-1); |