If you can add Andres Rodriguez <[email protected]>, and Greg to your Cc list
in the future patches that'd be appreciated.

On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 09:48:18AM -0400, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> Add an LSM hook prior to allowing firmware sysfs fallback loading.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
> Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <[email protected]>
> Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
> Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c | 7 +++++++
>  include/linux/fs.h                      | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c 
> b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
> index 31b5015b59fe..23d2af30474e 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
> @@ -651,6 +651,8 @@ static bool fw_force_sysfs_fallback(unsigned int 
> opt_flags)
>  
>  static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(unsigned int opt_flags)
>  {
> +     int ret;
> +
>       if (fw_fallback_config.ignore_sysfs_fallback) {
>               pr_info_once("Ignoring firmware sysfs fallback due to sysctl 
> knob\n");
>               return false;
> @@ -659,6 +661,11 @@ static bool fw_run_sysfs_fallback(unsigned int opt_flags)
>       if ((opt_flags & FW_OPT_NOFALLBACK))
>               return false;
>  
> +     /* Also permit LSMs and IMA to fail firmware sysfs fallback */
> +     ret = security_kernel_read_file(NULL, READING_FIRMWARE_FALLBACK);
> +     if (ret < 0)
> +             return ret;
> +
>       return fw_force_sysfs_fallback(opt_flags);
>  }
>  
> diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
> index 760d8da1b6c7..dc16a73c3d38 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -2810,6 +2810,7 @@ extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int);
>       id(UNKNOWN, unknown)            \
>       id(FIRMWARE, firmware)          \
>       id(FIRMWARE_PREALLOC_BUFFER, firmware)  \
> +     id(FIRMWARE_FALLBACK, firmware) \

If you're going to add this perhaps FIRMWARE_FALLBACK_SYSFS as we may later
get FIRMWARE_FALLBACK_EFI.

  Luis

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