From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-10.1 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5526FC2BB1D for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25B3C2071C for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:26:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1584044792; bh=EVb3hULjR6YWXXpQG373XwYYOQUqRmedwmya3IWWMoU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:List-ID:From; b=fr+jFxkixDAlSt4SMuOgLQgtrdqpG5i1EYdcYzgD79bQsCurfYXzjlPkdoH6TDeY5 I7Khm6HF/bup4kanQX+LVOP5ANMXOP97VEdKuKPSpUkWLhMc02PoETZ03JMp/mqCtC SWZxdql65+KOiXERNueW1edJr3fmo+930lBCnPnc= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727053AbgCLU0K (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:10 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:60250 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727014AbgCLU0J (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:26:09 -0400 Received: from sol.hsd1.ca.comcast.net (c-107-3-166-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [107.3.166.239]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B1CF62071C; Thu, 12 Mar 2020 20:26:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1584044769; bh=EVb3hULjR6YWXXpQG373XwYYOQUqRmedwmya3IWWMoU=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ideDtxjMsKSsbLyMbebFJgY+NzUCLCyeHcOvBbsTy56BM8bUXbqcUYk2FZCIZkGeq 4WP3d5Xd6wqS7xPEwplGmU2u0L3LrEfKdRkkQP2zCaoLyEc7thL3sOk519j6MFb3z6 z93dfnAoVWN23MyoYENxl6dMbwHmNUch/tbW9sbU= From: Eric Biggers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexei Starovoitov , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jeff Vander Stoep , Jessica Yu , Kees Cook , Luis Chamberlain , NeilBrown , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 1/4] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 13:25:49 -0700 Message-Id: <20200312202552.241885-2-ebiggers@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20200312202552.241885-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> References: <20200312202552.241885-1-ebiggers@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org From: Eric Biggers It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely (while still allowing manual module insertion) by setting /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string. This can be preferable to setting it to a nonexistent file since it avoids the overhead of an attempted execve(), avoids potential deadlocks, and avoids the call to security_kernel_module_request() and thus on SELinux-based systems eliminates the need to write SELinux rules to dontaudit module_request. However, when module autoloading is disabled in this way, request_module() returns 0. This is broken because callers expect 0 to mean that the module was successfully loaded. Apparently this was never noticed because this method of disabling module autoloading isn't used much, and also most callers don't use the return value of request_module() since it's always necessary to check whether the module registered its functionality or not anyway. But improperly returning 0 can indeed confuse a few callers, for example get_fs_type() in fs/filesystems.c where it causes a WARNING to be hit: if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) { fs = __get_fs_type(name, len); WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name); } This is easily reproduced with: echo > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe mount -t NONEXISTENT none / It causes: request_module fs-NONEXISTENT succeeded, but still no fs? WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1106 at fs/filesystems.c:275 get_fs_type+0xd6/0xf0 [...] This should actually use pr_warn_once() rather than WARN_ONCE(), since it's also user-reachable if userspace immediately unloads the module. Regardless, request_module() should correctly return an error when it fails. So let's make it return -ENOENT, which matches the error when the modprobe binary doesn't exist. I've also sent patches to document and test this case. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep Cc: Jessica Yu Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers --- kernel/kmod.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c index bc6addd9152b4..a2de58de6ab62 100644 --- a/kernel/kmod.c +++ b/kernel/kmod.c @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int call_modprobe(char *module_name, int wait) * invoke it. * * If module auto-loading support is disabled then this function - * becomes a no-operation. + * simply returns -ENOENT. */ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...) { @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int __request_module(bool wait, const char *fmt, ...) WARN_ON_ONCE(wait && current_is_async()); if (!modprobe_path[0]) - return 0; + return -ENOENT; va_start(args, fmt); ret = vsnprintf(module_name, MODULE_NAME_LEN, fmt, args); -- 2.25.1