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, 15 Mar 2019 02:16:04 +0000 (02:16 +0000)
commit785fa539d9dd3b67c1cab2aae9c6bff7b83fd8d1
tree4a8c62539eaa4fda5213644d7da286c0e04a8956
parent6ad2c35902641de48bbcea02e473e185475c8e6d
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