module: add in-kernel support for decompressing

Current scheme of having userspace decompress kernel modules before
loading them into the kernel runs afoul of LoadPin security policy, as
it loses link between the source of kernel module on the disk and binary
blob that is being loaded into the kernel. To solve this issue let's
implement decompression in kernel, so that we can pass a file descriptor
of compressed module file into finit_module() which will keep LoadPin
happy.

To let userspace know what compression/decompression scheme kernel
supports it will create /sys/module/compression attribute. kmod can read
this attribute and decide if it can pass compressed file to
finit_module(). New MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_DATA flag indicates that the
kernel should attempt to decompress the data read from file descriptor
prior to trying load the module.

To simplify things kernel will only implement single decompression
method matching compression method selected when generating modules.
This patch implements gzip and xz; more can be added later,

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <[email protected]>

Author: dtor

include/uapi/linux/module.h

@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
 /* Flags for sys_finit_module: */
 #define MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_MODVERSIONS	1
 #define MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_VERMAGIC	2
+#define MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE	4
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MODULE_H */

init/Kconfig

@@ -2274,6 +2274,19 @@ config MODULE_COMPRESS_ZSTD
 
 endchoice
 
+config MODULE_DECOMPRESS
+	bool "Support in-kernel module decompression"
+	depends on MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP || MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
+	select ZLIB_INFLATE if MODULE_COMPRESS_GZIP
+	select XZ_DEC if MODULE_COMPRESS_XZ
+	help
+
+	  Support for decompressing kernel modules by the kernel itself
+	  instead of relying on userspace to perform this task. Useful when
+	  load pinning security policy is enabled.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config MODULE_ALLOW_MISSING_NAMESPACE_IMPORTS
 	bool "Allow loading of modules with missing namespace imports"
 	help

kernel/Makefile

@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ obj-y += up.o
 endif
 obj-$(CONFIG_UID16) += uid16.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MODULES) += module.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS) += module_decompress.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG) += module_signing.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_FORMAT) += module_signature.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += kallsyms.o

kernel/module-internal.h

@@ -22,10 +22,29 @@ struct load_info {
 	bool sig_ok;
 #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
 	unsigned long mod_kallsyms_init_off;
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS
+	struct page **pages;
+	unsigned int max_pages;
+	unsigned int used_pages;
 #endif
 	struct {
 		unsigned int sym, str, mod, vers, info, pcpu;
 	} index;
 };
 
 extern int mod_verify_sig(const void *mod, struct load_info *info);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS
+int module_decompress(struct load_info *info, const void *buf, size_t size);
+void module_decompress_cleanup(struct load_info *info);
+#else
+static inline int module_decompress(struct load_info *info,
+				    const void *buf, size_t size)
+{
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+static inline void module_decompress_cleanup(struct load_info *info)
+{
+}
+#endif

kernel/module.c

@@ -3173,9 +3173,12 @@ static int copy_module_from_user(const void __user *umod, unsigned long len,
 	return err;
 }
 
-static void free_copy(struct load_info *info)
+static void free_copy(struct load_info *info, int flags)
 {
-	vfree(info->hdr);
+	if (flags & MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE)
+		module_decompress_cleanup(info);
+	else
+		vfree(info->hdr);
 }
 
 static int rewrite_section_headers(struct load_info *info, int flags)
@@ -4124,7 +4127,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
 	}
 
 	/* Get rid of temporary copy. */
-	free_copy(info);
+	free_copy(info, flags);
 
 	/* Done! */
 	trace_module_load(mod);
@@ -4173,7 +4176,7 @@ static int load_module(struct load_info *info, const char __user *uargs,
 
 	module_deallocate(mod, info);
  free_copy:
-	free_copy(info);
+	free_copy(info, flags);
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -4200,7 +4203,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(init_module, void __user *, umod,
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(finit_module, int, fd, const char __user *, uargs, int, flags)
 {
 	struct load_info info = { };
-	void *hdr = NULL;
+	void *buf = NULL;
+	int len;
 	int err;
 
 	err = may_init_module();
@@ -4210,15 +4214,24 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(finit_module, int, fd, const char __user *, uargs, int, flags)
 	pr_debug("finit_module: fd=%d, uargs=%p, flags=%i\n", fd, uargs, flags);
 
 	if (flags & ~(MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_MODVERSIONS
-		      |MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_VERMAGIC))
+		      |MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_VERMAGIC
+		      |MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	err = kernel_read_file_from_fd(fd, 0, &hdr, INT_MAX, NULL,
+	len = kernel_read_file_from_fd(fd, 0, &buf, INT_MAX, NULL,
 				       READING_MODULE);
-	if (err < 0)
-		return err;
-	info.hdr = hdr;
-	info.len = err;
+	if (len < 0)
+		return len;
+
+	if (flags & MODULE_INIT_COMPRESSED_FILE) {
+		err = module_decompress(&info, buf, len);
+		vfree(buf); /* compressed data is no longer needed */
+		if (err)
+			return err;
+	} else {
+		info.hdr = buf;
+		info.len = len;
+	}
 
 	return load_module(&info, uargs, flags);
 }