This series regards the whitelist that is used for the SG_IO ioctl. This
whitelist has three problems:
* the bitmap of allowed commands is designed for MMC devices (roughly,
"play/burn CDs without requiring root") but some opcodes overlap across SCSI
device classes and have different meanings for different classes.
* also because the bitmap of allowed commands is designed for MMC devices
only, some commands are missing even though they are generally useful and
not insecure. At least not more insecure than anything else you can
do if you have access to /dev/sdX or /dev/stX nodes.
* the whitelist can be disabled per-process but not per-disk. In addition,
the required capability (CAP_SYS_RAWIO) gives access to a range of other
resources, enough to make it insecure.
The series corrects these problems. Patches 1-4 solve the first problem,
which also has an assigned CVE, by using different bitmaps for the various
device classes. Patches 5-11 solve the second by adding more commands
to the bitmaps. Patches 12 and 13 solve the third, and were already
posted but ignored by the maintainers despite multiple pings.
Note: checkpatch hates the formatting of the command table. I know about this,
and ensured that there are no errors in the rest of the code. The current
formatting is IMHO quite handy, and roughly based on the files available
from the SCSI standard body.
Ok for the next merge window?
Paolo
v1->v2: remove 2 MMC commands and 6 SBC commands (see patches 6 and 9
for details). Added patch 14 and added a few more scanner
commands based on SANE (scanners are not whitelisted by default,
also were not in v1, but this makes it possible to opt into the
whitelist out of paranoia). Removed C++ comments. Removed the
large #if 0'd list of commands that the kernel does not pass
though. Marked blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults as __init.
Paolo Bonzini (14):
sg_io: pass request_queue to blk_verify_command
sg_io: reorganize list of allowed commands
sg_io: use different default filters for each device class
sg_io: resolve conflicts between commands assigned to multiple
classes (CVE-2012-4542)
sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for rare & obsolete device types
sg_io: whitelist another command for multimedia devices
sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for media changers
sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for tapes
sg_io: whitelist a few more commands for disks
sg_io: whitelist a few obsolete commands
sg_io: mark blk_set_cmd_filter_defaults as __init
sg_io: remove remnants of sysfs SG_IO filters
sg_io: introduce unpriv_sgio queue flag
sg_io: use unpriv_sgio to disable whitelisting for scanners
Documentation/block/queue-sysfs.txt | 8 +
block/blk-sysfs.c | 33 +++
block/bsg.c | 2 +-
block/scsi_ioctl.c | 369 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c | 14 ++-
drivers/scsi/sg.c | 6 +-
include/linux/blkdev.h | 8 +-
include/linux/genhd.h | 9 -
include/scsi/scsi.h | 3 +
9 files changed, 344 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)
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