This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED enum to the 5.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fs-kernel_read_file-remove-firmware_efi_embedded-enum.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 06e67b849ab910a49a629445f43edb074153d0eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2020 10:38:14 -0700 Subject: fs/kernel_read_file: Remove FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED enum From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 06e67b849ab910a49a629445f43edb074153d0eb upstream. The "FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED" enum is a "where", not a "what". It should not be distinguished separately from just "FIRMWARE", as this confuses the LSMs about what is being loaded. Additionally, there was no actual validation of the firmware contents happening. Fixes: e4c2c0ff00ec ("firmware: Add new platform fallback mechanism and firmware_request_platform()") Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201002173828.2099543-3-keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback_platform.c @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ int firmware_fallback_platform(struct fw if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_FALLBACK_PLATFORM)) return -ENOENT; - rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED); + rc = security_kernel_load_data(LOADING_FIRMWARE); if (rc) return rc; --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3011,7 +3011,6 @@ extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int); id(UNKNOWN, unknown) \ id(FIRMWARE, firmware) \ id(FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER, firmware) \ - id(FIRMWARE_EFI_EMBEDDED, firmware) \ id(MODULE, kernel-module) \ id(KEXEC_IMAGE, kexec-image) \ id(KEXEC_INITRAMFS, kexec-initramfs) \ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.8/fs-kernel_read_file-remove-firmware_efi_embedded-enum.patch