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| author | Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> | 2025-10-14 13:28:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2026-03-25 11:06:10 +0100 |
| commit | 1dacf6b3718a356428f0e31300fb7b9e5fc6e347 (patch) | |
| tree | 69c83f49e5d2324ae36e24dd62fdf66055b0b241 | |
| parent | 1879319d790f7d57622cdc22807b60ea78b56b6d (diff) | |
xen/privcmd: add boot control for restricted usage in domU
commit 1613462be621ad5103ec338a7b0ca0746ec4e5f1 upstream.
When running in an unprivileged domU under Xen, the privcmd driver
is restricted to allow only hypercalls against a target domain, for
which the current domU is acting as a device model.
Add a boot parameter "unrestricted" to allow all hypercalls (the
hypervisor will still refuse destructive hypercalls affecting other
guests).
Make this new parameter effective only in case the domU wasn't started
using secure boot, as otherwise hypercalls targeting the domU itself
might result in violating the secure boot functionality.
This is achieved by adding another lockdown reason, which can be
tested to not being set when applying the "unrestricted" option.
This is part of XSA-482
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/security.h | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | security/security.c | 1 |
3 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c index b41d839506d8..049b29089b7e 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ #include <linux/miscdevice.h> #include <linux/moduleparam.h> #include <linux/notifier.h> +#include <linux/security.h> #include <linux/wait.h> #include <asm/xen/hypervisor.h> @@ -65,6 +66,11 @@ module_param_named(dm_op_buf_max_size, privcmd_dm_op_buf_max_size, uint, MODULE_PARM_DESC(dm_op_buf_max_size, "Maximum size of a dm_op hypercall buffer"); +static bool unrestricted; +module_param(unrestricted, bool, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(unrestricted, + "Don't restrict hypercalls to target domain if running in a domU"); + struct privcmd_data { domid_t domid; }; @@ -1301,6 +1307,13 @@ static struct notifier_block xenstore_notifier = { static void __init restrict_driver(void) { + if (unrestricted) { + if (security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_XEN_USER_ACTIONS)) + pr_warn("Kernel is locked down, parameter \"unrestricted\" ignored\n"); + else + return; + } + restrict_wait = true; register_xenstore_notifier(&xenstore_notifier); diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 4bd0f6fc553e..937840870d86 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason { LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER, LOCKDOWN_DBG_WRITE_KERNEL, LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION, + LOCKDOWN_XEN_USER_ACTIONS, LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX, LOCKDOWN_KCORE, LOCKDOWN_KPROBES, diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index b6144833c7a8..1794860fd614 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const char *const lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX + 1] = { [LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER] = "use of bpf to write user RAM", [LOCKDOWN_DBG_WRITE_KERNEL] = "use of kgdb/kdb to write kernel RAM", [LOCKDOWN_RTAS_ERROR_INJECTION] = "RTAS error injection", + [LOCKDOWN_XEN_USER_ACTIONS] = "Xen guest user action", [LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity", [LOCKDOWN_KCORE] = "/proc/kcore access", [LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes", |