This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
thunderbolt: Allow clearing the key
to the 4.13-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:
thunderbolt-allow-clearing-the-key.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e545f0d8a54a9594fe604d67d80ca6fddf72ca59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bernat, Yehezkel" <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:19:20 +0300
Subject: thunderbolt: Allow clearing the key
From: Bernat, Yehezkel <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
commit e545f0d8a54a9594fe604d67d80ca6fddf72ca59 upstream.
If secure authentication of a devices fails, either because the device
already has another key uploaded, or there is some other error sending
challenge to the device, and the user only wants to approve the device
just once (without a new key being uploaded to the device) the current
implementation does not allow this because the key cannot be cleared
once set even if we allow it to be changed.
Make this scenario possible and allow clearing the key by writing
empty string to the key sysfs file.
Signed-off-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt | 2 ++
drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c | 15 +++++++++++----
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-thunderbolt
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ Contact: thunderbolt-software@lists.01.o
Description: When a devices supports Thunderbolt secure connect it will
have this attribute. Writing 32 byte hex string changes
authorization to use the secure connection method instead.
+ Writing an empty string clears the key and regular connection
+ method can be used again.
What: /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/.../device
Date: Sep 2017
--- a/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
+++ b/drivers/thunderbolt/switch.c
@@ -807,8 +807,11 @@ static ssize_t key_store(struct device *
struct tb_switch *sw = tb_to_switch(dev);
u8 key[TB_SWITCH_KEY_SIZE];
ssize_t ret = count;
+ bool clear = false;
- if (hex2bin(key, buf, sizeof(key)))
+ if (!strcmp(buf, "\n"))
+ clear = true;
+ else if (hex2bin(key, buf, sizeof(key)))
return -EINVAL;
if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&switch_lock))
@@ -818,9 +821,13 @@ static ssize_t key_store(struct device *
ret = -EBUSY;
} else {
kfree(sw->key);
- sw->key = kmemdup(key, sizeof(key), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!sw->key)
- ret = -ENOMEM;
+ if (clear) {
+ sw->key = NULL;
+ } else {
+ sw->key = kmemdup(key, sizeof(key), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!sw->key)
+ ret = -ENOMEM;
+ }
}
mutex_unlock(&switch_lock);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yehezkel.bernat@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-make-key-root-only-accessible.patch
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-remove-superfluous-check.patch
queue-4.13/thunderbolt-allow-clearing-the-key.patch