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Commit 3ddfe3bd authored by Zong-Zhe Yang's avatar Zong-Zhe Yang Committed by Kalle Valo
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wifi: rtw89: don't request partial firmware if SECURITY_LOADPIN_ENFORCE



Kernel logs on platform enabling SECURITY_LOADPIN_ENFORCE
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```
LoadPin: firmware old-api-denied obj=<unknown> pid=810 cmdline="modprobe -q -- rtw89_8852ce"
rtw89_8852ce 0000:01:00.0: loading /lib/firmware/rtw89/rtw8852c_fw.bin failed with error -1
rtw89_8852ce 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for rtw89/rtw8852c_fw.bin failed with error -1
rtw89_8852ce 0000:01:00.0: failed to early request firmware: -1
```

Trace
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```
request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
> _request_firmware()
>> fw_get_filesystem_firmware()
>>> kernel_read_file_from_path_initns()
>>>> kernel_read_file()
>>>>> security_kernel_read_file()
// It will iterate enabled LSMs' hooks for kernel_read_file.
// With loadpin, it hooks loadpin_read_file.
```

If SECURITY_LOADPIN_ENFORCE is enabled, doing kernel_read_file() on partial
files will be denied and return -EPERM (-1). Then, the outer API based on it,
e.g. request_partial_firmware_into_buf(), will get the error.

In the case, we cannot get the firmware stuffs right, even though there might
be no error other than a permission issue on reading a partial file. So we have
to request full firmware if SECURITY_LOADPIN_ENFORCE is enabled. It makes us
still have a chance to do early firmware work on this kind of platforms.

Signed-off-by: default avatarZong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPing-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221202060521.501512-2-pkshih@realtek.com
parent c2f2924b
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