Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who want

to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard IMA on it
 or other security hooks.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
 "Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
  want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
  IMA on it or other security hooks."

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
  MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
  modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
  module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
  ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
  ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
  moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
  __UNIQUE_ID()
  MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
  powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
  ima: support new kernel module syscall
  add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
  ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
  security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
  module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
  module: add syscall to load module from fd

include/linux/asn1.h

@@ -64,4 +64,6 @@ enum asn1_tag {
 	ASN1_LONG_TAG	= 31	/* Long form tag */
 };
 
+#define ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH 0x80
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_ASN1_H */

include/linux/compiler-gcc4.h

@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
 
 #define __linktime_error(message) __attribute__((__error__(message)))
 
+#define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __COUNTER__)
+
 #if __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 5
 /*
  * Mark a position in code as unreachable.  This can be used to

include/linux/compiler.h

@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ extern void __chk_io_ptr(const volatile void __iomem *);
 # define __rcu
 #endif
 
+/* Indirect macros required for expanded argument pasting, eg. __LINE__. */
+#define ___PASTE(a,b) a##b
+#define __PASTE(a,b) ___PASTE(a,b)
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #ifdef __GNUC__
@@ -166,6 +170,11 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
     (typeof(ptr)) (__ptr + (off)); })
 #endif
 
+/* Not-quite-unique ID. */
+#ifndef __UNIQUE_ID
+# define __UNIQUE_ID(prefix) __PASTE(__PASTE(__UNIQUE_ID_, prefix), __LINE__)
+#endif
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */

include/linux/ima.h

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ extern int ima_bprm_check(struct linux_binprm *bprm);
 extern int ima_file_check(struct file *file, int mask);
 extern void ima_file_free(struct file *file);
 extern int ima_file_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long prot);
+extern int ima_module_check(struct file *file);
 
 #else
 static inline int ima_bprm_check(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
@@ -40,6 +41,11 @@ static inline int ima_file_mmap(struct file *file, unsigned long prot)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int ima_module_check(struct file *file)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_IMA_H */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE

include/linux/moduleparam.h

@@ -16,17 +16,15 @@
 /* Chosen so that structs with an unsigned long line up. */
 #define MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN (64 - sizeof(unsigned long))
 
-#define ___module_cat(a,b) __mod_ ## a ## b
-#define __module_cat(a,b) ___module_cat(a,b)
 #ifdef MODULE
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
-static const char __module_cat(name,__LINE__)[]				  \
+static const char __UNIQUE_ID(name)[]					  \
   __used __attribute__((section(".modinfo"), unused, aligned(1)))	  \
   = __stringify(tag) "=" info
 #else  /* !MODULE */
 /* This struct is here for syntactic coherency, it is not used */
 #define __MODULE_INFO(tag, name, info)					  \
-  struct __module_cat(name,__LINE__) {}
+  struct __UNIQUE_ID(name) {}
 #endif
 #define __MODULE_PARM_TYPE(name, _type)					  \
   __MODULE_INFO(parmtype, name##type, #name ":" _type)

include/linux/security.h

@@ -694,6 +694,12 @@ static inline void security_free_mnt_opts(struct security_mnt_opts *opts)
  *	userspace to load a kernel module with the given name.
  *	@kmod_name name of the module requested by the kernel
  *	Return 0 if successful.
+ * @kernel_module_from_file:
+ *	Load a kernel module from userspace.
+ *	@file contains the file structure pointing to the file containing
+ *	the kernel module to load. If the module is being loaded from a blob,
+ *	this argument will be NULL.
+ *	Return 0 if permission is granted.
  * @task_fix_setuid:
  *	Update the module's state after setting one or more of the user
  *	identity attributes of the current process.  The @flags parameter
@@ -1508,6 +1514,7 @@ struct security_operations {
 	int (*kernel_act_as)(struct cred *new, u32 secid);
 	int (*kernel_create_files_as)(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode);
 	int (*kernel_module_request)(char *kmod_name);
+	int (*kernel_module_from_file)(struct file *file);
 	int (*task_fix_setuid) (struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 				int flags);
 	int (*task_setpgid) (struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid);
@@ -1765,6 +1772,7 @@ void security_transfer_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old);
 int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid);
 int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode);
 int security_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name);
+int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file);
 int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 			     int flags);
 int security_task_setpgid(struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid);
@@ -2278,6 +2286,11 @@ static inline int security_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new,
 					   const struct cred *old,
 					   int flags)

include/linux/syscalls.h

@@ -880,4 +880,5 @@ asmlinkage long sys_process_vm_writev(pid_t pid,
 
 asmlinkage long sys_kcmp(pid_t pid1, pid_t pid2, int type,
 			 unsigned long idx1, unsigned long idx2);
+asmlinkage long sys_finit_module(int fd, const char __user *uargs, int flags);
 #endif