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)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Fri, 20 Jul 2018 21:08:27 +0000 (22:08 +0100)
commit7eb4f7320d16d88511269e23fb7cabb54c03ed57
treeb7b73ba19ed9b220300d18751f2c2c064c8a4d77
parent59bf5783b17fd0024e896b296a7b4e0b2c6ca5e1
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