From: Matthew Garrett
Git-commit: Not yet, reviewing
Patch-mainline: Not yet, reviewing
References: fate#314486
Target: SLE-11 SP3
We have no way of validating what all of the Asus WMI methods do on a
given machine, and there's a risk that some will allow hardware state to
be manipulated in such a way that arbitrary code can be executed in the
kernel. Add a capability check to prevent that.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett
Acked-by: Lee, Chun-Yi
---
drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -1521,6 +1521,9 @@ static int show_dsts(struct seq_file *m,
int err;
u32 retval = -1;
+ if (!capable(CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL))
+ return -EPERM;
+
err = asus_wmi_get_devstate(asus, asus->debug.dev_id, &retval);
if (err < 0)
@@ -1537,6 +1540,9 @@ static int show_devs(struct seq_file *m,
int err;
u32 retval = -1;
+ if (!capable(CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL))
+ return -EPERM;
+
err = asus_wmi_set_devstate(asus->debug.dev_id, asus->debug.ctrl_param,
&retval);
@@ -1561,6 +1567,9 @@ static int show_call(struct seq_file *m,
union acpi_object *obj;
acpi_status status;
+ if (!capable(CAP_COMPROMISE_KERNEL))
+ return -EPERM;
+
status = wmi_evaluate_method(ASUS_WMI_MGMT_GUID,
1, asus->debug.method_id,
&input, &output);
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