Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/iio/

From	William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/iio/
Date	2016-12-01 15:00 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 12:30:55PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
>When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
>prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
>includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
>access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
>device to access or modify the kernel image.
>
>To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
>configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
>specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
>skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
>The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
>default values for those parameters is.
>
>Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
>drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
>some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
>to manually coded parameters.
>
>This patch annotates drivers in drivers/iio/.
>
>Suggested-by: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>cc: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
>cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
>cc: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>

>---
>
> drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c  |    2 +-
> drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c |    2 +-
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c b/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c
>index 7e3645749eaf..a805bd543acb 100644
>--- a/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c
>+++ b/drivers/iio/adc/stx104.c
>@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
> 
> static unsigned int base[max_num_isa_dev(STX104_EXTENT)];
> static unsigned int num_stx104;
>-module_param_array(base, uint, &num_stx104, 0);
>+module_param_hw_array(base, uint, ioport, &num_stx104, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(base, "Apex Embedded Systems STX104 base addresses");
> 
> /**
>diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c b/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c
>index 5a743e2a779d..dac086129edf 100644
>--- a/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c
>+++ b/drivers/iio/dac/cio-dac.c
>@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> 
> static unsigned int base[max_num_isa_dev(CIO_DAC_EXTENT)];
> static unsigned int num_cio_dac;
>-module_param_array(base, uint, &num_cio_dac, 0);
>+module_param_hw_array(base, uint, ioport, &num_cio_dac, 0);
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(base, "Measurement Computing CIO-DAC base addresses");
> 
> /**
>

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[PATCH 00/39] Annotate hw config module params for future lockdown David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:30 +0100
  [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-01 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 17:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 22:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-06 08:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 11:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-06 12:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> - 2016-12-02 04:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-02 08:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> - 2016-12-02 08:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 22:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-02 16:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware  parameters (eg. ioport) Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-05 16:50 +0100
              Re: [PATCH 01/39] Annotate module params that specify hardware parameters (eg. ioport) David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-06 12:00 +0100
  [PATCH 20/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/hamradio/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 34/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/watchdog/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 34/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/watchdog/ Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-12-01 14:00 +0100
  [PATCH 03/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/char/ipmi/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 03/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/char/ipmi/ Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> - 2016-12-01 14:20 +0100
  [PATCH 05/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/char/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 28/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/i4l/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 07/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/cpufreq/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 07/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/cpufreq/ "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> - 2016-12-01 15:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 07/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/cpufreq/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 15:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 07/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/cpufreq/ "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> - 2016-12-01 15:30 +0100
  [PATCH 39/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  sound/pci/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 35/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  fs/pstore/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 11/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/input/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 11/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/input/ Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2016-12-03 20:00 +0100
  [PATCH 21/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/irda/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 31/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/vme/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 33/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/video/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 04/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/char/mwave/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 38/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  sound/oss/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 06/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/clocksource/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 12/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/isdn/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 23/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/wireless/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 23/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/ Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-02 06:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 23/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 14:50 +0100
  [PATCH 29/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/media/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 29/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/media/ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-12-01 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 29/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 16:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 29/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/media/ Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-12-01 16:20 +0100
  [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/i2c/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/i2c/ Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> - 2016-12-01 14:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/i2c/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 15:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/i2c/ Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> - 2016-12-01 17:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 09/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/i2c/ One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-12-05 22:20 +0100
  [PATCH 19/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/ethernet/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 18/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/can/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 18/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/can/ Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> - 2016-12-01 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH 25/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/pci/hotplug/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 25/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/pci/hotplug/ Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org> - 2016-12-07 19:40 +0100
  [PATCH 27/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/scsi/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 27/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/scsi/ Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au> - 2016-12-01 23:10 +0100
  [PATCH 26/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/pcmcia/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 08/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/gpio/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/gpio/ William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 14:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 08/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/gpio/ Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-12-02 14:00 +0100
  [PATCH 32/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/tty/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 32/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/tty/ Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-12-01 16:10 +0100
  [PATCH 13/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/media/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 36/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  sound/drivers/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 17/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/arcnet/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 24/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/parport/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 15/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/mmc/host/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 02/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  arch/x86/mm/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 16/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/appletalk/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 37/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  sound/isa/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 30/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/staging/speakup/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 22/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/net/wan/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
  [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/iio/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/iio/ William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 15:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/iio/ Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org> - 2016-12-03 15:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 10/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/iio/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-07 14:50 +0100
  [PATCH 14/39] Annotate hardware config module parameters in  drivers/misc/ David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> - 2016-12-01 13:40 +0100

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