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 <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c index c0e9ff4..3c10167 100644 --- 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, void *data) 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, void *data) 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, void *data) 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); -- 1.7.11.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
