debugfs: Disallow use of debugfs files when the kernel is locked down
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Wed, 8 Nov 2017 15:11:36 +0000 (15:11 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 22:16:58 +0000 (23:16 +0100)
commit31b4e241526c787ba74fbe30f95e8c5054240bf7
tree376119068f5a8538b560f493b082881d81a240c2
parentd35d779c3d92fd79b0f3a10f0f6153aff6a8687e
debugfs: Disallow use of debugfs files when the kernel is locked down

Disallow opening of debugfs files when the kernel is locked down as various
drivers give raw access to hardware through debugfs.

Accesses to tracefs should use /sys/kernel/tracing/ rather than
/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/.  Possibly a symlink should be emplaced.

Normal device interaction should be done through configfs or a miscdev, not
debugfs.

Note that this makes it unnecessary to specifically lock down show_dsts(),
show_devs() and show_call() in the asus-wmi driver.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
cc: acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
[bwh: Forward-ported to 4.15]

Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0024-debugfs-Disallow-use-of-debugfs-files-when-the-kerne.patch
fs/debugfs/file.c