x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down
authorMatthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:11:34 +0000 (15:11 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 7 Oct 2018 20:57:06 +0000 (21:57 +0100)
commit00a0f8614c8e427ae9b98e4425ced600c98747bc
tree5ed24915862e0c9b6bcca22628a34c9bc26e427e
parent8b65fd1e79eab64665394060b771550d11f5d9d6
x86/msr: Restrict MSR access when the kernel is locked down

Writing to MSRs should not be allowed if the kernel is locked down, since
it could lead to execution of arbitrary code in kernel mode.  Based on a
patch by Kees Cook.

MSR accesses are logged for the purposes of building up a whitelist as per
Alan Cox's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
cc: x86@kernel.org

Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0013-x86-msr-Restrict-MSR-access-when-the-kernel-is-locke.patch
arch/x86/kernel/msr.c