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authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>2011-05-26 12:26:24 +0200
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2011-05-29 01:50:40 -0400
commit526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3 (patch)
tree7906a3b45703aa730d5e7ebadc36a55aee5417ca /drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
parentaecad432fd68dafa5b3b497c4816fbfce6fd4066 (diff)
downloadlinux-526b4af47f44148c9d665e57723ed9f86634c6e3.tar.gz
ACPI: Split out custom_method functionality into an own driver
With /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method root can write
to arbitrary memory and increase his priveleges, even if
these are restricted.

-> Make this an own debug .config option and warn about the
security issue in the config description.

-> Still keep acpi/debugfs.c which now only creates an empty
   /sys/kernel/debug/acpi directory. There might be other
   users of it later.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: rui.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/debugfs.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/debugfs.c80
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 79 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c b/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
index e7abc6e3bba0..182a9fc36355 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/init.h>
-#include <linux/module.h>
-#include <linux/kernel.h>
-#include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <acpi/acpi_drivers.h>
 
@@ -13,84 +10,9 @@
 ACPI_MODULE_NAME("debugfs");
 
 struct dentry *acpi_debugfs_dir;
-static struct dentry *cm_dentry;
-
-/* /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method */
-
-static ssize_t cm_write(struct file *file, const char __user * user_buf,
-			size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
-{
-	static char *buf;
-	static u32 max_size;
-	static u32 uncopied_bytes;
-
-	struct acpi_table_header table;
-	acpi_status status;
-
-	if (!(*ppos)) {
-		/* parse the table header to get the table length */
-		if (count <= sizeof(struct acpi_table_header))
-			return -EINVAL;
-		if (copy_from_user(&table, user_buf,
-				   sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)))
-			return -EFAULT;
-		uncopied_bytes = max_size = table.length;
-		buf = kzalloc(max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!buf)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
-	if (buf == NULL)
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if ((*ppos > max_size) ||
-	    (*ppos + count > max_size) ||
-	    (*ppos + count < count) ||
-	    (count > uncopied_bytes))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
-	if (copy_from_user(buf + (*ppos), user_buf, count)) {
-		kfree(buf);
-		buf = NULL;
-		return -EFAULT;
-	}
-
-	uncopied_bytes -= count;
-	*ppos += count;
-
-	if (!uncopied_bytes) {
-		status = acpi_install_method(buf);
-		kfree(buf);
-		buf = NULL;
-		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
-			return -EINVAL;
-		add_taint(TAINT_OVERRIDDEN_ACPI_TABLE);
-	}
-
-	return count;
-}
-
-static const struct file_operations cm_fops = {
-	.write = cm_write,
-	.llseek = default_llseek,
-};
-
-static int __init acpi_custom_method_init(void)
-{
-	if (!acpi_debugfs_dir)
-		return -ENOENT;
-
-	cm_dentry = debugfs_create_file("custom_method", S_IWUSR,
-					acpi_debugfs_dir, NULL, &cm_fops);
-	if (!cm_dentry)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
-	return 0;
-}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_debugfs_dir);
 
 void __init acpi_debugfs_init(void)
 {
 	acpi_debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("acpi", NULL);
-
-	acpi_custom_method_init();
 }