linux-kernel - Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use request_module

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:20:32 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" 
        <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
        Geo Kozey <geokozey@...lfence.com>
Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [PATCH v5 next 5/5] net: modules: use
 request_module_cap() to load 'netdev-%s' modules

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Linus, are you okay with this series if the global sysctl gets dropped?
>
> So really, it's not the "global sysctl" as much as the "global
> request_module()" that annoys me.
>
> I'll happily take the request_module_cap() part and the thing that
> makes networking use that.
>
> But the flag that we have to default to off because it breaks every
> single box otherwise? No. It doesn't  matter if it's one single global
> or just a "global behavior for request_module() for this process" at
> that point, it's still a pointless security flag that is opt-in.

To be clear: such a flag wouldn't doesn't break every system, but I
understand your concern.

So what's the right path forward for allowing a way to block
autoloading? Separate existing request_module() calls into "must be
privileged" and "can be unpriv" first, then rework the series to deal
with the "unpriv okay" subset?

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security