Zhang Xiaoxu noted that physical address locations for MTRR were visible
to non-root users, which could be considered an information leak.
In discussing[1] the options for solving this, it sounded like just
moving the capable check into open() was the first step.
If this breaks userspace, then we will have a test case for the more
conservative approaches discussed in the thread. In summary:
- MTRR should check capabilities at open time (or retain the
checks on the opener's permissions for later checks).
- changing the DAC permissions might break something that expects to
open mtrr when not uid 0.
- if we leave the DAC permissions alone and just move the capable check
to the opener, we should get the desired protection. (i.e. check
against CAP_SYS_ADMIN not just the wider uid 0.)
- if that still breaks things, as in userspace expects to be able to
read other parts of the file as non-uid-0 and non-CAP_SYS_ADMIN, then
we need to censor the contents using the opener's permissions. For
example, as done in other /proc cases, like commit
51d7b12041 ("/proc/iomem: only expose physical resource addresses to privileged users").
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/201911110934.AC5BA313@keescook/
Reported-by: Zhang Xiaoxu <zhangxiaoxu5@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/201911181308.63F06502A1@keescook
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