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Andrew Donnellan 240baebeda powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace
commit bd59380c5ba4147dcbaad3e582b55ccfd120b764 upstream.

A number of userspace utilities depend on making calls to RTAS to retrieve
information and update various things.

The existing API through which we expose RTAS to userspace exposes more
RTAS functionality than we actually need, through the sys_rtas syscall,
which allows root (or anyone with CAP_SYS_ADMIN) to make any RTAS call they
want with arbitrary arguments.

Many RTAS calls take the address of a buffer as an argument, and it's up to
the caller to specify the physical address of the buffer as an argument. We
allocate a buffer (the "RMO buffer") in the Real Memory Area that RTAS can
access, and then expose the physical address and size of this buffer in
/proc/powerpc/rtas/rmo_buffer. Userspace is expected to read this address,
poke at the buffer using /dev/mem, and pass an address in the RMO buffer to
the RTAS call.

However, there's nothing stopping the caller from specifying whatever
address they want in the RTAS call, and it's easy to construct a series of
RTAS calls that can overwrite arbitrary bytes (even without /dev/mem
access).

Additionally, there are some RTAS calls that do potentially dangerous
things and for which there are no legitimate userspace use cases.

In the past, this would not have been a particularly big deal as it was
assumed that root could modify all system state freely, but with Secure
Boot and lockdown we need to care about this.

We can't fundamentally change the ABI at this point, however we can address
this by implementing a filter that checks RTAS calls against a list
of permitted calls and forces the caller to use addresses within the RMO
buffer.

The list is based off the list of calls that are used by the librtas
userspace library, and has been tested with a number of existing userspace
RTAS utilities. For compatibility with any applications we are not aware of
that require other calls, the filter can be turned off at build time.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <ajd@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200820044512.7543-1-ajd@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-11-05 11:43:30 +01:00
arch powerpc/rtas: Restrict RTAS requests from userspace 2020-11-05 11:43:30 +01:00
block block: ratelimit handle_bad_sector() message 2020-10-29 09:58:01 +01:00
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crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - EBUSY on aio should be an error 2020-10-29 09:57:30 +01:00
Documentation media: videodev2.h: RGB BT2020 and HSV are always full range 2020-11-05 11:43:15 +01:00
drivers iio:gyro:itg3200: Fix timestamp alignment and prevent data leak. 2020-11-05 11:43:30 +01:00
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