Commit 2472d64a authored by Sven Van Asbroeck's avatar Sven Van Asbroeck Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: improve LSM/IMA security behaviour

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>
parent 5669245b
......@@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(enum fw_opt opt_flags)
/* Also permit LSMs and IMA to fail firmware sysfs fallback */
ret = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE);
if (ret < 0)
return ret;
return false;
return fw_force_sysfs_fallback(opt_flags);
}
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