acpi: Disable APEI error injection if the kernel is locked down

ACPI provides an error injection mechanism, EINJ, for debugging and testing
the ACPI Platform Error Interface (APEI) and other RAS features.  If
supported by the firmware, ACPI specification 5.0 and later provide for a
way to specify a physical memory address to which to inject the error.

Injecting errors through EINJ can produce errors which to the platform are
indistinguishable from real hardware errors.  This can have undesirable
side-effects, such as causing the platform to mark hardware as needing
replacement.

While it does not provide a method to load unauthenticated privileged code,
the effect of these errors may persist across reboots and affect trust in
the underlying hardware, so disable error injection through EINJ if
the kernel is locked down.

Signed-off-by: Linn Crosetto <linn@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>
cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown
Gbp-Pq: Name 0018-acpi-Disable-APEI-error-injection-if-the-kernel-is-l.patch

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
index e430cf4caec29377d1a046b2b535c1e2784bf051..dde995f871d6db8973fb707a16a378368f9375ed 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/einj.c
@@ -510,6 +510,9 @@ static int einj_error_inject(u32 type, u32 flags, u64 param1, u64 param2,
        int rc;
        u64 base_addr, size;
 
+       if (kernel_is_locked_down("ACPI error injection"))
+               return -EPERM;
+
        /* If user manually set "flags", make sure it is legal */
        if (flags && (flags &
                ~(SETWA_FLAGS_APICID|SETWA_FLAGS_MEM|SETWA_FLAGS_PCIE_SBDF)))