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>
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:15:55 +0000 (19:15 +0000)
commit73085d1a9a22204f793f12b7fc60d3c1ed5d26d6
treea0a56cf5e937fcb0c28e55dc7621644d53199692
parente275b01d946a73edcdef3212f7b9c8724f9fd4fb
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