Re: [PATCH V34 18/29] Lock down TIOCSSERIAL

Kees Cook
2019-06-23T00:01:10Z

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:03:47PM -0700, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>
> Lock down TIOCSSERIAL as that can be used to change the ioport and irq
> settings on a serial port. This only appears to be an issue for the serial
> drivers that use the core serial code. All other drivers seem to either
> ignore attempts to change port/irq or give an error.
>
> Reported-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
> cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 5 +++++
> include/linux/security.h | 1 +
> security/lockdown/lockdown.c | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> index 351843f847c0..a84f231a5df4 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
> #include <linux/serial_core.h>
> #include <linux/delay.h>
> #include <linux/mutex.h>
> +#include <linux/security.h>
>
> #include <linux/irq.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> @@ -852,6 +853,10 @@ static int uart_set_info(struct tty_struct *tty, struct tty_port *port,
> new_flags = (__force upf_t)new_info->flags;
> old_custom_divisor = uport->custom_divisor;
>
> + retval = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL);
> + if (retval && (change_port || change_irq))
> + goto exit;
> +
> if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> retval = -EPERM;
> if (change_irq || change_port ||

This should be moved after the capable test. With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

-Kees

> diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
> index 03c125b277ca..61e3f4a62d16 100644
> --- a/include/linux/security.h
> +++ b/include/linux/security.h
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason {
> LOCKDOWN_MSR,
> LOCKDOWN_ACPI_TABLES,
> LOCKDOWN_PCMCIA_CIS,
> + LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL,
> LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
> LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
> };
> diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
> index 7be3e8fb5847..c89046dc2155 100644
> --- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
> +++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static char *lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
> [LOCKDOWN_MSR] = "raw MSR access",
> [LOCKDOWN_ACPI_TABLES] = "modified ACPI tables",
> [LOCKDOWN_PCMCIA_CIS] = "direct PCMCIA CIS storage",
> + [LOCKDOWN_TIOCSSERIAL] = "reconfiguration of serial port IO",
> [LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity",
> [LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX] = "confidentiality",
> };
> --
> 2.22.0.410.gd8fdbe21b5-goog
>

--
Kees Cook