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platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add filtering support
authorMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:25:34 +0000 (14:25 -0500)
committerDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 23:34:00 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
commit1f8543a5d602b816b9b64a62cafd6caae2af4ca6
tree5d06789d37efc746d748ac4d127de54a45916c9f
parentda1f607ed6e6a904463396bb6a28bf96584c61cc
platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add filtering support

When a userspace interface is introduced to dell-smbios filtering
support will be used to make sure that userspace doesn't make calls
deemed unsafe or that can cause the kernel drivers to get out of
sync.

A blacklist is provided for the following:
- Items that are in use by other kernel drivers
- Items that are deemed unsafe (diagnostics, write-once, etc)
- Any items in the blacklist will be rejected.

Following that a whitelist is provided as follows:
- Each item has an associated capability.  If a userspace interface
  accesses this item, that capability will be tested to filter
  the request.
- If the process provides CAP_SYS_RAWIO the whitelist will be
  overridden.

When an item is not in the blacklist, or whitelist and the process
is run with insufficient capabilities the call will be rejected.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.h