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    firmware: improve LSM/IMA security behaviour · f42cde4a
    Sven Van Asbroeck authored
    commit 2472d64a upstream.
    
    The firmware loader queries if LSM/IMA permits it to load firmware
    via the sysfs fallback. Unfortunately, the code does the opposite:
    it expressly permits sysfs fw loading if security_kernel_load_data(
    LOADING_FIRMWARE) returns -EACCES. This happens because a
    zero-on-success return value is cast to a bool that's true on success.
    
    Fix the return value handling so we get the correct behaviour.
    
    Fixes: 6e852651 ("firmware: add call to LSM hook before firmware sysfs fallback")
    Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    To: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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