kernel_optimize_test/kernel
Eric Biggers d7d27cfc5c kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled
Patch series "module autoloading fixes and cleanups", v5.

This series fixes a bug where request_module() was reporting success to
kernel code when module autoloading had been completely disabled via
'echo > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe'.

It also addresses the issues raised on the original thread
(https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org/T/#u)
bydocumenting the modprobe sysctl, adding a self-test for the empty path
case, and downgrading a user-reachable WARN_ONCE().

This patch (of 4):

It's long been possible to disable kernel module autoloading completely
(while still allowing manual module insertion) by setting
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe to the empty string.

This can be preferable to setting it to a nonexistent file since it
avoids the overhead of an attempted execve(), avoids potential
deadlocks, and avoids the call to security_kernel_module_request() and
thus on SELinux-based systems eliminates the need to write SELinux rules
to dontaudit module_request.

However, when module autoloading is disabled in this way,
request_module() returns 0.  This is broken because callers expect 0 to
mean that the module was successfully loaded.

Apparently this was never noticed because this method of disabling
module autoloading isn't used much, and also most callers don't use the
return value of request_module() since it's always necessary to check
whether the module registered its functionality or not anyway.

But improperly returning 0 can indeed confuse a few callers, for example
get_fs_type() in fs/filesystems.c where it causes a WARNING to be hit:

	if (!fs && (request_module("fs-%.*s", len, name) == 0)) {
		fs = __get_fs_type(name, len);
		WARN_ONCE(!fs, "request_module fs-%.*s succeeded, but still no fs?\n", len, name);
	}

This is easily reproduced with:

	echo > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
	mount -t NONEXISTENT none /

It causes:

	request_module fs-NONEXISTENT succeeded, but still no fs?
	WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1106 at fs/filesystems.c:275 get_fs_type+0xd6/0xf0
	[...]

This should actually use pr_warn_once() rather than WARN_ONCE(), since
it's also user-reachable if userspace immediately unloads the module.
Regardless, request_module() should correctly return an error when it
fails.  So let's make it return -ENOENT, which matches the error when
the modprobe binary doesn't exist.

I've also sent patches to document and test this case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200310223731.126894-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200312202552.241885-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
..
bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-03-30 19:52:37 -07:00
cgroup Merge branch 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2020-04-03 11:30:20 -07:00
configs compiler: remove CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING entirely 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
debug SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1. 2020-04-03 13:12:26 -07:00
dma dma-mapping updates for 5.7 2020-04-04 10:12:47 -07:00
events mm/vma: replace all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
gcov kernel/gcov/fs.c: replace zero-length array with flexible-array member 2020-04-07 10:43:44 -07:00
irq x86 entry code updates: 2020-03-30 19:14:28 -07:00
livepatch
locking x86 entry code updates: 2020-03-30 19:14:28 -07:00
power Additional power management updates for 5.7-rc1 2020-04-06 10:14:39 -07:00
printk console: Introduce ->exit() callback 2020-02-11 10:44:22 +01:00
rcu Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2020-03-30 16:17:15 -07:00
sched mm/vma: make vma_is_accessible() available for general use 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
time hrtimer: Don't dereference the hrtimer pointer after the callback 2020-04-01 13:20:14 +02:00
trace New tracing features: 2020-04-05 10:36:18 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
acct.c
async.c
audit_fsnotify.c fsnotify: use helpers to access data by data_type 2020-03-23 18:19:06 +01:00
audit_tree.c
audit_watch.c \n 2020-04-06 08:58:42 -07:00
audit.c audit/stable-5.7 PR 20200330 2020-03-31 15:04:17 -07:00
audit.h audit: trigger accompanying records when no rules present 2020-03-12 10:42:51 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: fix error handling in audit_data_to_entry() 2020-02-22 20:36:47 -05:00
auditsc.c audit: trigger accompanying records when no rules present 2020-03-12 10:42:51 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
compat.c y2038: remove unused time32 interfaces 2020-02-21 11:22:15 -08:00
configs.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
context_tracking.c context-tracking: Introduce CONFIG_HAVE_TIF_NOHZ 2020-02-14 16:05:04 +01:00
cpu_pm.c
cpu.c CPU (hotplug) updates: 2020-03-30 18:06:39 -07:00
crash_core.c
crash_dump.c
cred.c kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c
exit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-04-02 11:22:17 -07:00
extable.c kernel/extable.c: use address-of operator on section symbols 2020-04-07 10:43:42 -07:00
fail_function.c
fork.c mm: set vm_next and vm_prev to NULL in vm_area_dup() 2020-04-07 10:43:37 -07:00
freezer.c
futex.c Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2020-03-30 16:17:15 -07:00
gen_kheaders.sh
groups.c
hung_task.c
iomem.c
irq_work.c lockdep: Annotate irq_work 2020-03-21 16:00:24 +01:00
jump_label.c
kallsyms.c kallsyms: unexport kallsyms_lookup_name() and kallsyms_on_each_symbol() 2020-04-07 10:43:44 -07:00
kcmp.c kernel/kcmp.c: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve 2020-03-25 10:04:01 -05:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kcov.c
kexec_core.c
kexec_elf.c
kexec_file.c
kexec_internal.h
kexec.c
kheaders.c
kmod.c kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
kprobes.c
ksysfs.c
kthread.c kthread: Do not preempt current task if it is going to call schedule() 2020-03-20 13:06:20 +01:00
latencytop.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
Makefile kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace 2020-01-31 10:30:41 -08:00
module_signature.c
module_signing.c
module-internal.h
module.c Modules updates for v5.7 2020-04-09 12:52:34 -07:00
notifier.c x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all() 2020-03-21 18:56:06 -07:00
nsproxy.c ns: Introduce Time Namespace 2020-01-14 12:20:48 +01:00
padata.c crypto: pcrypt - simplify error handling in pcrypt_create_aead() 2020-03-06 12:28:24 +11:00
panic.c
params.c
pid_namespace.c pid: Improve the comment about waiting in zap_pid_ns_processes 2020-02-28 16:29:12 -06:00
pid.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-04-02 11:22:17 -07:00
profile.c proc: convert everything to "struct proc_ops" 2020-02-04 03:05:26 +00:00
ptrace.c ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has_cap() 2020-01-18 13:51:39 +01:00
range.c
reboot.c
relay.c
resource.c
rseq.c
seccomp.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-03-31 17:29:33 -07:00
signal.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2020-04-02 11:22:17 -07:00
smp.c cpu/hotplug: Move bringup of secondary CPUs out of smp_init() 2020-03-25 12:59:37 +01:00
smpboot.c
smpboot.h
softirq.c lockdep: Rename trace_{hard,soft}{irq_context,irqs_enabled}() 2020-03-21 16:03:54 +01:00
stackleak.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: Make stop_cpus() static 2020-01-17 10:19:21 +01:00
sys_ni.c
sys.c sys/sysinfo: Respect boottime inside time namespace 2020-03-03 19:34:32 +01:00
sysctl_binary.c
sysctl-test.c
sysctl.c mm/compaction: Disable compact_unevictable_allowed on RT 2020-04-02 09:35:31 -07:00
task_work.c task_work_run: don't take ->pi_lock unconditionally 2020-03-02 14:06:33 -07:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
torture.c CPU (hotplug) updates: 2020-03-30 18:06:39 -07:00
tracepoint.c
tsacct.c
ucount.c
uid16.c
uid16.h
umh.c
up.c smp/up: Make smp_call_function_single() match SMP semantics 2020-02-07 15:34:12 +01:00
user_namespace.c
user-return-notifier.c
user.c
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
watchdog_hld.c
watchdog.c watchdog/softlockup: Enforce that timestamp is valid on boot 2020-01-17 11:19:22 +01:00
workqueue_internal.h
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2020-04-03 12:27:36 -07:00