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| author | Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> | 2009-04-02 22:49:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-04-03 00:47:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 3d43321b7015387cfebbe26436d0e9d299162ea1 (patch) | |
| tree | bae6bd123c8f573e844a7af11c96eb5f6a73e0ee | |
| parent | 8a6f83afd0c5355db6d11394a798e94950306239 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3d43321b7015387cfebbe26436d0e9d299162ea1.tar.xz | |
modules: sysctl to block module loading
Implement a sysctl file that disables module-loading system-wide since
there is no longer a viable way to remove CAP_SYS_MODULE after the system
bounding capability set was removed in 2.6.25.
Value can only be set to "1", and is tested only if standard capability
checks allow CAP_SYS_MODULE. Given existing /dev/mem protections, this
should allow administrators a one-way method to block module loading
after initial boot-time module loading has finished.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/module.c | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sysctl.c | 12 |
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index a4ccdd1..02b1349 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - kstack_depth_to_print [ X86 only ] - l2cr [ PPC only ] - modprobe ==> Documentation/debugging-modules.txt +- modules_disabled - msgmax - msgmnb - msgmni @@ -179,6 +180,16 @@ kernel stack. ============================================================== +modules_disabled: + +A toggle value indicating if modules are allowed to be loaded +in an otherwise modular kernel. This toggle defaults to off +(0), but can be set true (1). Once true, modules can be +neither loaded nor unloaded, and the toggle cannot be set back +to false. + +============================================================== + osrelease, ostype & version: # cat osrelease diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c index f77ac32..eeb3f7b 100644 --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -778,6 +778,9 @@ static void wait_for_zero_refcount(struct module *mod) mutex_lock(&module_mutex); } +/* Block module loading/unloading? */ +int modules_disabled = 0; + SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, unsigned int, flags) { @@ -785,7 +788,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user, char name[MODULE_NAME_LEN]; int ret, forced = 0; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE) || modules_disabled) return -EPERM; if (strncpy_from_user(name, name_user, MODULE_NAME_LEN-1) < 0) @@ -2349,7 +2352,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user *, umod, int ret = 0; /* Must have permission */ - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE) || modules_disabled) return -EPERM; /* Only one module load at a time, please */ diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c5ef44f..2fb4246 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static int ngroups_max = NGROUPS_MAX; #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES extern char modprobe_path[]; +extern int modules_disabled; #endif #ifdef CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG extern int sg_big_buff; @@ -533,6 +534,17 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dostring, .strategy = &sysctl_string, }, + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "modules_disabled", + .data = &modules_disabled, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + /* only handle a transition from default "0" to "1" */ + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec_minmax, + .extra1 = &one, + .extra2 = &one, + }, #endif #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) && defined(CONFIG_NET) { |