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<updated>2024-12-09T09:32:37+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Fix possible resource leak in fw_log_firmware_info()</title>
<updated>2024-12-09T09:32:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaosheng Cui</name>
<email>cuigaosheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-16T11:03:35+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 369a9c046c2fdfe037f05b43b84c386bdbccc103 ]

The alg instance should be released under the exception path, otherwise
there may be resource leak here.

To mitigate this, free the alg instance with crypto_free_shash when kmalloc
fails.

Fixes: 02fe26f25325 ("firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amadeusz Sławiński &lt;amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russ Weight &lt;russ.weight@linux.dev&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241016110335.3677924-1-cuigaosheng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Block path traversal</title>
<updated>2024-10-04T14:29:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jann Horn</name>
<email>jannh@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-27T23:45:48+00:00</published>
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commit f0e5311aa8022107d63c54e2f03684ec097d1394 upstream.

Most firmware names are hardcoded strings, or are constructed from fairly
constrained format strings where the dynamic parts are just some hex
numbers or such.

However, there are a couple codepaths in the kernel where firmware file
names contain string components that are passed through from a device or
semi-privileged userspace; the ones I could find (not counting interfaces
that require root privileges) are:

 - lpfc_sli4_request_firmware_update() seems to construct the firmware
   filename from "ModelName", a string that was previously parsed out of
   some descriptor ("Vital Product Data") in lpfc_fill_vpd()
 - nfp_net_fw_find() seems to construct a firmware filename from a model
   name coming from nfp_hwinfo_lookup(pf-&gt;hwinfo, "nffw.partno"), which I
   think parses some descriptor that was read from the device.
   (But this case likely isn't exploitable because the format string looks
   like "netronome/nic_%s", and there shouldn't be any *folders* starting
   with "netronome/nic_". The previous case was different because there,
   the "%s" is *at the start* of the format string.)
 - module_flash_fw_schedule() is reachable from the
   ETHTOOL_MSG_MODULE_FW_FLASH_ACT netlink command, which is marked as
   GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM (meaning CAP_NET_ADMIN inside a user namespace is
   enough to pass the privilege check), and takes a userspace-provided
   firmware name.
   (But I think to reach this case, you need to have CAP_NET_ADMIN over a
   network namespace that a special kind of ethernet device is mapped into,
   so I think this is not a viable attack path in practice.)

Fix it by rejecting any firmware names containing ".." path components.

For what it's worth, I went looking and haven't found any USB device
drivers that use the firmware loader dangerously.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich &lt;dakr@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: abb139e75c2c ("firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240828-firmware-traversal-v3-1-c76529c63b5f@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check</title>
<updated>2023-05-31T19:31:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-16T08:12:51+00:00</published>
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The crypto_alloc_shash() function doesn't return NULL, it returns
error pointers.  Update the check accordingly.

Fixes: 02fe26f25325 ("firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Cezary Rojewski &lt;cezary.rojewski@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/36ef6042-ce74-4e8e-9e2c-5b5c28940610@kili.mountain
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Strip off \n from customized path</title>
<updated>2023-04-20T09:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Florian Fainelli</name>
<email>f.fainelli@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-13T19:17:57+00:00</published>
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Having helped an user recently figure out why the customized path being
specified was not taken into account landed on a subtle difference
between using:

echo "/xyz/firmware" &gt; /sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path

which inserts an additional newline which is passed as is down to
fw_get_filesystem_firmware() and ultimately kernel_read_file_from_path()
and fails.

Strip off \n from the customized firmware path such that users do not
run into these hard to debug situations.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230402135423.3235-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli &lt;f.fainelli@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230413191757.1949088-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Add debug message with checksum for FW file</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T10:22:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amadeusz Sławiński</name>
<email>amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-17T22:47:29+00:00</published>
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Enable dynamic-debug logging of firmware filenames and SHA256 checksums
to clearly identify the firmware files that are loaded by the system.

Example output:
[   34.944619] firmware_class:_request_firmware: i915 0000:00:02.0: Loaded FW: i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_04.bin, sha256: 2cde41c3e5ad181423bcc3e98ff9c49f743c88f18646af4d0b3c3a9664b831a1
[   48.155884] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/cnl/dsp_basefw.bin, sha256: 43f6ac1b066e9bd0423d914960fbbdccb391af27d2b1da1085eee3ea8df0f357
[   49.579540] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/rt274-tplg.bin, sha256: 4b3580da96dc3d2c443ba20c6728d8b665fceb3ed57223c3a57582bbad8e2413
[   49.798196] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/hda-8086280c-tplg.bin, sha256: 5653172579b2be1b51fd69f5cf46e2bac8d63f2a1327924311c13b2f1fe6e601
[   49.859627] firmware_class:_request_firmware: snd_soc_avs 0000:00:1f.3: Loaded FW: intel/avs/dmic-tplg.bin, sha256: 00fb7fbdb74683333400d7e46925dae60db448b88638efcca0b30215db9df63f

Reviewed-by: Cezary Rojewski &lt;cezary.rojewski@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Russ Weight &lt;russell.h.weight@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Amadeusz Sławiński &lt;amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230317224729.1025879-1-amadeuszx.slawinski@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cred: Do not default to init_cred in prepare_kernel_cred()</title>
<updated>2022-11-01T17:04:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-26T23:31:11+00:00</published>
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A common exploit pattern for ROP attacks is to abuse prepare_kernel_cred()
in order to construct escalated privileges[1]. Instead of providing a
short-hand argument (NULL) to the "daemon" argument to indicate using
init_cred as the base cred, require that "daemon" is always set to
an actual task. Replace all existing callers that were passing NULL
with &amp;init_task.

Future attacks will need to have sufficiently powerful read/write
primitives to have found an appropriately privileged task and written it
to the ROP stack as an argument to succeed, which is similarly difficult
to the prior effort needed to escalate privileges before struct cred
existed: locate the current cred and overwrite the uid member.

This has the added benefit of meaning that prepare_kernel_cred() can no
longer exceed the privileges of the init task, which may have changed from
the original init_cred (e.g. dropping capabilities from the bounding set).

[1] https://google.com/search?q=commit_creds(prepare_kernel_cred(0))

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steve French &lt;sfrench@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg &lt;lsahlber@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Shyam Prasad N &lt;sprasad@microsoft.com&gt;
Cc: Tom Talpey &lt;tom@talpey.com&gt;
Cc: Namjae Jeon &lt;linkinjeon@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Chuck Lever &lt;chuck.lever@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paolo Abeni &lt;pabeni@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Michal Koutný" &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Russ Weight &lt;russell.h.weight@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) &lt;pc@cjr.nz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221026232943.never.775-kees@kernel.org
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()</title>
<updated>2022-07-28T14:32:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabio M. De Francesco</name>
<email>fmdefrancesco@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-14T23:50:30+00:00</published>
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The use of kmap() is being deprecated in favor of kmap_local_page().

Two main problems with kmap(): (1) It comes with an overhead as mapping
space is restricted and protected by a global lock for synchronization and
(2) kmap() also requires global TLB invalidation when the kmap’s pool
wraps and it might block when the mapping space is fully utilized until a
slot becomes available.

kmap_local_page() is preferred over kmap() and kmap_atomic(). Where it
cannot mechanically replace the latters, code refactor should be considered
(special care must be taken if kernel virtual addresses are aliases in
different contexts).

With kmap_local_page() the mappings are per thread, CPU local, can take
page faults, and can be called from any context (including interrupts).

Call kmap_local_page() in firmware_loader wherever kmap() is currently
used. In firmware_rw() use the helpers copy_{from,to}_page() instead of
open coding the local mappings + memcpy().

Successfully tested with "firmware" selftests on a QEMU/KVM 32-bits VM
with 4GB RAM, booting a kernel with HIGHMEM64GB enabled.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Ira Weiny &lt;ira.weiny@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco &lt;fmdefrancesco@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220714235030.12732-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2022-06-03T18:48:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-03T18:48:47+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.19-rc1.

  Lots of tiny driver core changes and cleanups happened this cycle, but
  the two major things are:

   - firmware_loader reorganization and additions including the ability
     to have XZ compressed firmware images and the ability for userspace
     to initiate the firmware load when it needs to, instead of being
     always initiated by the kernel. FPGA devices specifically want this
     ability to have their firmware changed over the lifetime of the
     system boot, and this allows them to work without having to come up
     with yet-another-custom-uapi interface for loading firmware for
     them.

   - physical location support added to sysfs so that devices that know
     this information, can tell userspace where they are located in a
     common way. Some ACPI devices already support this today, and more
     bus types should support this in the future.

  Smaller changes include:

   - driver_override api cleanups and fixes

   - error path cleanups and fixes

   - get_abi script fixes

   - deferred probe timeout changes.

  It's that last change that I'm the most worried about. It has been
  reported to cause boot problems for a number of systems, and I have a
  tested patch series that resolves this issue. But I didn't get it
  merged into my tree before 5.18-final came out, so it has not gotten
  any linux-next testing.

  I'll send the fixup patches (there are 2) as a follow-on series to this
  pull request.

  All have been tested in linux-next for weeks, with no reported issues
  other than the above-mentioned boot time-outs"

* tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach
  kernfs: Separate kernfs_pr_cont_buf and rename_lock.
  topology: Remove unused cpu_cluster_mask()
  driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration
  MAINTAINERS: add Russ Weight as a firmware loader maintainer
  driver: base: fix UAF when driver_attach failed
  test_firmware: fix end of loop test in upload_read_show()
  driver core: location: Add "back" as a possible output for panel
  driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld
  driver core: Add "*" wildcard support to driver_async_probe cmdline param
  driver core: location: Check for allocations failure
  arch_topology: Trace the update thermal pressure
  kernfs: Rename kernfs_put_open_node to kernfs_unlink_open_file.
  export: fix string handling of namespace in EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS
  rpmsg: use local 'dev' variable
  rpmsg: Fix calling device_lock() on non-initialized device
  firmware_loader: describe 'module' parameter of firmware_upload_register()
  firmware_loader: Move definitions from sysfs_upload.h to sysfs.h
  firmware_loader: Fix configs for sysfs split
  selftests: firmware: Add firmware upload selftests
  ...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_loader: use kernel credentials when reading firmware</title>
<updated>2022-05-06T08:00:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thiébaud Weksteen</name>
<email>tweek@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T00:49:52+00:00</published>
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Device drivers may decide to not load firmware when probed to avoid
slowing down the boot process should the firmware filesystem not be
available yet. In this case, the firmware loading request may be done
when a device file associated with the driver is first accessed. The
credentials of the userspace process accessing the device file may be
used to validate access to the firmware files requested by the driver.
Ensure that the kernel assumes the responsibility of reading the
firmware.

This was observed on Android for a graphic driver loading their firmware
when the device file (e.g. /dev/mali0) was first opened by userspace
(i.e. surfaceflinger). The security context of surfaceflinger was used
to validate the access to the firmware file (e.g.
/vendor/firmware/mali.bin).

Previously, Android configurations were not setting up the
firmware_class.path command line argument and were relying on the
userspace fallback mechanism. In this case, the security context of the
userspace daemon (i.e. ueventd) was consistently used to read firmware
files. More Android devices are now found to set firmware_class.path
which gives the kernel the opportunity to read the firmware directly
(via kernel_read_file_from_path_initns). In this scenario, the current
process credentials were used, even if unrelated to the loading of the
firmware file.

Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen &lt;tweek@google.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 5.10
Reviewed-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220502004952.3970800-1-tweek@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "firmware_loader: use kernel credentials when reading firmware"</title>
<updated>2022-04-27T14:19:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-27T14:19:05+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 3677563eb8731e1ad5970e3e57f74e5f9d63502a as it leaks
memory :(

Reported-by: Qian Cai &lt;quic_qiancai@quicinc.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220427135823.GD71@qian
Cc: Thiébaud Weksteen &lt;tweek@google.com&gt;
Cc: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</content>
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