Ben Hutchings [Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:58:04 +0000 (03:58 +0100)]
cdc_ncm,cdc_mbim: Use NCM by default
Forwarded: not-needed
Devices that support both NCM and MBIM modes should be kept in NCM
mode unless there is userland support for MBIM.
Set the default value of cdc_ncm.prefer_mbim to false and leave it to
userland (modem-manager) to override this with a modprobe.conf file
once it's ready to speak MBIM.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name cdc_ncm-cdc_mbim-use-ncm-by-default.patch
There is still laptop firmware that touches the integrated GPU behind
the operating system's back, and doesn't say so in the RMRR table.
Enabling the IOMMU for all devices causes breakage.
Replace CONFIG_INTEL_IOMMU_DEFAULT_ON with a 3-way choice
corresponding to "on", "off", and "on,intgpu_off".
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name intel-iommu-add-kconfig-option-to-exclude-igpu-by-default.patch
There is still laptop firmware that touches the integrated GPU behind
the operating system's back, and doesn't say so in the RMRR table.
Enabling the IOMMU for all devices causes breakage, but turning it off
for all graphics devices seems like a major weakness.
Add an option, intel_iommu=igpu_off, to exclude only integrated GPUs
from remapping. This is a narrower exclusion than igfx_off: it only
affects Intel devices on the root bus. Devices attached through an
external port (Thunderbolt or ExpressCard) won't be on the root bus.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/x86
Gbp-Pq: Name intel-iommu-add-option-to-exclude-integrated-gpu-only.patch
Ben Hutchings [Mon, 11 Jan 2016 15:23:55 +0000 (15:23 +0000)]
security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_open
Forwarded: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/587
When kernel.perf_event_open is set to 3 (or greater), disallow all
access to performance events by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Add a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT that
makes this value the default.
This is based on a similar feature in grsecurity
(CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PERF_HARDEN). This version doesn't include making
the variable read-only. It also allows enabling further restriction
at run-time regardless of whether the default is changed.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all
Gbp-Pq: Name security-perf-allow-further-restriction-of-perf_event_open.patch
add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default
This is a short-term patch. Unprivileged use of CLONE_NEWUSER
is certainly an intended feature of user namespaces. However
for at least saucy we want to make sure that, if any security
issues are found, we have a fail-safe.
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
[bwh: Remove unneeded binary sysctl bits]
[bwh: Keep this sysctl, but change the default to enabled]
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name add-sysctl-to-disallow-unprivileged-CLONE_NEWUSER-by-default.patch
Ben Hutchings [Sun, 4 Aug 2019 23:29:11 +0000 (00:29 +0100)]
hamradio: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
Forwarded: not-needed
We can mitigate the effect of vulnerabilities in obscure protocols by
preventing unprivileged users from loading the modules, so that they
are only exploitable on systems where the administrator has chosen to
load the protocol.
The 'ham' radio protocols (ax25, netrom, rose) are not actively
maintained or widely used. Therefore disable auto-loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name hamradio-disable-auto-loading-as-mitigation-against-local-exploits.patch
Ben Hutchings [Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:09:17 +0000 (19:09 +0000)]
dccp: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
Forwarded: not-needed
We can mitigate the effect of vulnerabilities in obscure protocols by
preventing unprivileged users from loading the modules, so that they
are only exploitable on systems where the administrator has chosen to
load the protocol.
The 'dccp' protocol is not actively maintained or widely used.
Therefore disable auto-loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name dccp-disable-auto-loading-as-mitigation-against-local-exploits.patch
Ben Hutchings [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:12:48 +0000 (02:12 +0000)]
[PATCH 1/3] rds: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
Forwarded: not-needed
Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
service or privilege escalation. We can mitigate the effect of any
remaining vulnerabilities in such protocols by preventing unprivileged
users from loading the modules, so that they are only exploitable on
systems where the administrator has chosen to load the protocol.
The 'rds' protocol is one such protocol that has been found to be
vulnerable, and which was not present in the 'lenny' kernel.
Therefore disable auto-loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name rds-Disable-auto-loading-as-mitigation-against-local.patch
Ben Hutchings [Fri, 19 Nov 2010 02:12:48 +0000 (02:12 +0000)]
[PATCH 2/3] af_802154: Disable auto-loading as mitigation against local exploits
Forwarded: not-needed
Recent review has revealed several bugs in obscure protocol
implementations that can be exploited by local users for denial of
service or privilege escalation. We can mitigate the effect of any
remaining vulnerabilities in such protocols by preventing unprivileged
users from loading the modules, so that they are only exploitable on
systems where the administrator has chosen to load the protocol.
The 'af_802154' (IEEE 802.15.4) protocol is not widely used, was
not present in the 'lenny' kernel, and seems to receive only sporadic
maintenance. Therefore disable auto-loading.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name af_802154-Disable-auto-loading-as-mitigation-against.patch
If firmware loading fails due to a missing file, log a second error
message referring to our wiki page about firmware. This will explain
why some firmware is in non-free, or can't be packaged at all. Only
do this once per boot.
Do something similar in the radeon and amdgpu drivers, where we have
an early check to avoid failing at a point where we cannot display
anything.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name firmware_class-refer-to-debian-wiki-firmware-page.patch
radeon requires firmware/microcode for the GPU in all chips, but for
newer chips (apparently R600 'Evergreen' onward) it also expects
firmware for the memory controller and other sub-blocks.
radeon attempts to gracefully fall back and disable some features if
the firmware is not available, but becomes unstable - the framebuffer
and/or system memory may be corrupted, or the display may stay black.
Therefore, perform a basic check for the existence of
/lib/firmware/{radeon,amdgpu} when a device is probed, and abort if it
is missing, except for the pre-R600 case.
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name radeon-amdgpu-firmware-is-required-for-drm-and-kms-on-r600-onward.patch
Ben Hutchings [Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:02:00 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
firmware_class: Log every success and failure against given device
Forwarded: no
The hundreds of users of request_firmware() have nearly as many
different log formats for reporting failures. They also have only the
vaguest hint as to what went wrong; only firmware_class really knows
that. Therefore, add specific log messages for the failure modes that
aren't currently logged.
In case of a driver that tries multiple names, this may result in the
impression that it failed to initialise. Therefore, also log successes.
This makes many error messages in drivers redundant, which will be
removed in later patches.
This does not cover the case where we fall back to a user-mode helper
(which is no longer enabled in Debian).
NOTE: hw-detect will depend on the "firmware: failed to load %s (%d)\n"
format to detect missing firmware.
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name firmware_class-log-every-success-and-failure.patch
The iwlwifi driver currently supports firmware API versions 4-6 for
these devices. It will request the file for the latest supported
version and then fall back to earlier versions. However, the latest
version that has actually been released is 4, so we expect the
requests for versions 6 and then 5 to fail.
The installer appears to report any failed request, and it is probably
not easy to detect that this particular failure is harmless. So stop
requesting the unreleased firmware.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name iwlwifi-do-not-request-unreleased-firmware.patch
Ben Hutchings [Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:19:58 +0000 (23:19 +0100)]
af9005: Use request_firmware() to load register init script
Forwarded: no
Read the register init script from the Windows driver. This is sick
but should avoid the potential copyright infringement in distributing
a version of the script which is directly derived from the driver.
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all
Gbp-Pq: Name drivers-media-dvb-usb-af9005-request_firmware.patch
DKMS and module-assistant both build OOT modules as root. If they
build an old OOT module that still use SUBDIRS this causes Kbuild
to try building a full kernel, which obviously fails but not before
deleting files from the installed headers package.
To avoid such mishaps, detect this situation and abort the build.
The error message is based on that used in commit 0126be38d988
"kbuild: announce removal of SUBDIRS if used".
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name kbuild-abort-build-if-subdirs-used.patch
The module.lds linker script is now built under the scripts directory,
where previously it was under arch/$(SRCARCH).
However, we package the scripts directory as linux-kbuild, which is
meant to be able to do support native and cross-builds. That means it
shouldn't contain files for a specific target architecture without a
wrapper to select between them, and it doesn't appear that linker
scripts are powerful enough to implement such a wrapper.
Building module.lds in a different location would require relatively
large changes. Moving it in the package build rules can work, but we
need to support custom kernel builds from the same source so we can't
assume it's moved.
Therefore, we move module.lds under the arch build directory in
rules.real and change Makefile.modfinal to look for it in both places.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name kbuild-look-for-module.lds-under-arch-directory-too.patch
Ben Hutchings [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:27:00 +0000 (17:27 +0100)]
android: Enable building ashmem and binder as modules
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/901492
We want to enable use of the Android ashmem and binder drivers to
support Anbox, but they should not be built-in as that would waste
resources and increase security attack surface on systems that don't
need them.
- Add a MODULE_LICENSE declaration to ashmem
- Change the Makefiles to build each driver as an object with the
"_linux" suffix (which is what Anbox expects)
- Change config symbol types to tristate
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name android-enable-building-ashmem-and-binder-as-modules.patch
Ben Hutchings [Mon, 7 Sep 2020 01:51:53 +0000 (02:51 +0100)]
Export symbols needed by Android drivers
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/901492
We want to enable use of the Android ashmem and binder drivers to
support Anbox, but they should not be built-in as that would waste
resources and increase security attack surface on systems that don't
need them.
Export the currently un-exported symbols they depend on.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name export-symbols-needed-by-android-drivers.patch
Create manpages and binaries including the version
Forwarded: no
[bwh: Fix version insertion in perf man page cross-references and perf
man page title. Install bash_completion script for perf with a
version-dependent name. And do the same for trace.]
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name tools-perf-version.patch
YunQiang Su [Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:11:00 +0000 (09:11 +0800)]
Use RELAXED ieee754 mode for Loongson-3 as 3A 4000 is 2008-only
Forwarded: not-needed
There are 2 mode of value of IEEE NaN hardcoded by CPU.
Currently, our mipsel/mips64el port is in so-called lagacy mode.
Loongson 3A 4000 is set as the so-called 2008 mode.
To make Debian workable on Loongson 3A 4000, we need set the kerenl in
RELAXED mode.
Here's a patch that simply uses hardcoded definitions instead of
doing the dynamic tests that require architecture-specific scripts.
I don't particularly like this approach because it restricts
portability and diverts from upstream. But, it is simpler, and this
really needs to be fixed somehow before etch (along with a rebuild of
linux-modules-extra-2.6), so I'm willing to live with it if my other
patch is deemed unacceptable.
My primary concern is that, in the future, the output of these scripts
will change and we (or our successors) will either not notice or
forget to update the hardcoded values.
Including the scripts in linux-kbuild will avoid this manual step
altogether, and allow for the possibility of other archs to provide
their own scripts in the future.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name ia64-hardcode-arch-script-output.patch
Ben Hutchings [Tue, 12 May 2015 18:29:22 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Make mkcompile_h accept an alternate timestamp string
Forwarded: not-needed
We want to include the Debian version in the utsname::version string
instead of a full timestamp string. However, we still need to provide
a standard timestamp string for gen_initramfs_list.sh to make the
kernel image reproducible.
Make mkcompile_h use $KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION_TIMESTAMP in preference to
$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name uname-version-timestamp.patch
Ben Hutchings [Sat, 2 Jun 2012 18:53:38 +0000 (19:53 +0100)]
video: Remove nvidiafb and rivafb
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/383481
Forwarded: no
These drivers contain register programming code provided by the
hardware vendor that appears to have been deliberately obfuscated.
This is arguably not the preferred form for modification.
These drivers are also largely redundant with nouveau. The RIVA 128
(NV3) is not supported by nouveau but is about 15 years old and
probably discontinued 10 years ago.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian/dfsg
Gbp-Pq: Name video-remove-nvidiafb-and-rivafb.patch
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