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Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed

From David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed
Date 2016-11-23 14:00 +0100
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Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:

> You might also need to disable CIS overrides and CIS firmware loading for
> PCMCIA drivers, I presume. That needs two changes:
> 
> 	- Abort in drivers/pcmcia/ds.c::pcmcia_load_firmware() or disable
> 	  the CONFIG_PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS config option permanently.

This really ought to be handled through signature checking in
request_firmware().

> 	- Abort in drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c::pccard_store_cis() or remove
> 	  write access to the "cis" file in
> 	  drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c::pccard_cis_attr

What is that doing?  Allowing the device to be reconfigured?

David

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[PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
  [PATCH 15/16] acpi: Ignore acpi_rsdp kernel param when the kernel  has been locked down David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
  [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-11-17 23:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2016-11-18 13:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-11-18 13:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 05/16] efi: Add EFI_SECURE_BOOT bit David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-18 18:30 +0100
  [PATCH 07/16] kexec: Disable at runtime if the kernel is locked down David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
  [PATCH 08/16] Copy secure_boot flag in boot params across kexec  reboot David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
  [PATCH 12/16] ACPI: Limit access to custom_method when the kernel  is locked down David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 22:50 +0100
  [PATCH 03/16] efi: Disable secure boot if shim is in insecure mode David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 23:00 +0100
  [PATCH 04/16] efi: Lock down the kernel if booted in secure boot  mode David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 23:00 +0100
  [PATCH 11/16] x86: Lock down IO port access when the kernel is  locked down David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 23:00 +0100
  [PATCH 06/16] Add a sysrq option to exit secure boot mode David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-16 23:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-11-16 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> - 2016-11-21 21:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 00/16] Kernel lockdown Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org> - 2016-11-16 23:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs  and dma changed Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> - 2016-11-22 07:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-23 14:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs  and dma changed Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> - 2016-11-23 20:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs and dma changed David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-11-24 18:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] Lock down drivers that can have io ports, io mem, irqs  and dma changed Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> - 2016-11-24 21:30 +0100

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