linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH kmod v2 2/4] libkmod, depmod: Load modprobe.d, depmod.d from $prefix/lib.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <ZLFYzDyjP8sQPQOy@fjasle.eu>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:16:44 +0200
From:   Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Cc:     linux-modules@...r.kernel.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH kmod v2 2/4] libkmod, depmod: Load modprobe.d, depmod.d
 from $prefix/lib.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:00:46PM +0200 Michal Suchanek wrote:
> There is an ongoing effort to limit use of files outside of /usr (or
> $prefix on general). Currently all modprobe.d paths are hardcoded to
> outside of $prefix. Teach kmod to load modprobe.d from $prefix/lib.
> 
> On some distributions /usr/lib and /lib are the same directory because
> of a compatibility symlink, and it is possible to craft configuration
> files with sideeffects that would behave differently when loaded twice.
> However, the override semantic ensures that one 'overrides' the other,
> and only one configuration file of the same name is loaded from any of
> the search directories.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
> ---
> v2: Fix commit message typo
> ---
>  Makefile.am        | 1 +
>  libkmod/libkmod.c  | 3 ++-
>  man/Makefile.am    | 9 +++++++--
>  man/depmod.d.xml   | 1 +
>  man/modprobe.d.xml | 1 +
>  tools/depmod.c     | 1 +
>  6 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
> index 8ba85c91a0f3..7aa5bfa5638d 100644
> --- a/Makefile.am
> +++ b/Makefile.am
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS = \
>  	-include $(top_builddir)/config.h \
>  	-I$(top_srcdir) \
>  	-DSYSCONFDIR=\""$(sysconfdir)"\" \
> +	-DPREFIX=\""$(prefix)"\" \
>  	${zlib_CFLAGS}
>  
>  AM_CFLAGS = $(OUR_CFLAGS)
> diff --git a/libkmod/libkmod.c b/libkmod/libkmod.c
> index 2670f9a4611a..13c82b069e84 100644
> --- a/libkmod/libkmod.c
> +++ b/libkmod/libkmod.c
> @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ static const char *const default_config_paths[] = {
>  	SYSCONFDIR "/modprobe.d",
>  	"/run/modprobe.d",
>  	"/usr/local/lib/modprobe.d",
> +	PREFIX "/lib/modprobe.d",
>  	"/lib/modprobe.d",
>  	NULL
>  };
> @@ -237,7 +238,7 @@ static char *get_kernel_release(const char *dirname)
>   *                to load from user-defined configuration parameters such as
>   *                alias, blacklists, commands (install, remove). If NULL
>   *                defaults to /etc/modprobe.d, /run/modprobe.d,
> - *                /usr/local/lib/modprobe.d and /lib/modprobe.d. Give an empty
> + *                /usr/local/lib/modprobe.d and PREFIX/lib/modprobe.d. Give an empty

In the chunk above, there still is /lib/modprobe.d included in the
default_config_paths array.

Kind regards,
Nicolas


-- 
epost|xmpp: nicolas@...sle.eu          irc://oftc.net/nsc
↳ gpg: 18ed 52db e34f 860e e9fb  c82b 7d97 0932 55a0 ce7f
     -- frykten for herren er opphav til kunnskap --