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>
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:56:17 +0000 (18:56 +0000)
commit7f9ea57f7d1d108c70e6b69689bf0e4114a52eaf
tree99e8d028a3667a38c70efa8c933ec871a327cb0b
parent390b06a1a417764a37b39cf8e713cb9ec9e689c1
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