Merge tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core fixes from Greg KH:
 "Here is one fix, and three documentation updates for 5.18-rc7.

  The fix is for the firmware loader which resolves a long-reported
  problem where the credentials of the firmware loader could be set to a
  userspace process without enough permissions to actually load the
  firmware image. Many Android vendors have been reporting this for
  quite some time.

  The documentation updates are for the embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
  file to add a new entry, change an existing one, and sort the list to
  make changes easier in the future.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'driver-core-5.18-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  Documentation/process: Update ARM contact for embargoed hardware issues
  Documentation/process: Add embargoed HW contact for Ampere Computing
  Documentation/process: Make groups alphabetical and use tabs consistently
  firmware_loader: use kernel credentials when reading firmware

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
index 94d1789a233e..406a907a4cae 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
@@ -735,6 +735,8 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 		  size_t offset, u32 opt_flags)
 {
 	struct firmware *fw = NULL;
+	struct cred *kern_cred = NULL;
+	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	bool nondirect = false;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -751,6 +753,18 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 	if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
 		goto out;
 
+	/*
+	 * We are about to try to access the firmware file. Because we may have been
+	 * called by a driver when serving an unrelated request from userland, we use
+	 * the kernel credentials to read the file.
+	 */
+	kern_cred = prepare_kernel_cred(NULL);
+	if (!kern_cred) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
+	}
+	old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred);
+
 	ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL);
 
 	/* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */
@@ -776,6 +790,9 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
 	} else
 		ret = assign_fw(fw, device);
 
+	revert_creds(old_cred);
+	put_cred(kern_cred);
+
  out:
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		fw_abort_batch_reqs(fw);