[v2,04/18] certs: Create blacklist keyring earlier

Commit Message

Lukas Wunner June 30, 2024, 7:39 p.m. UTC

The upcoming support for PCI device authentication with CMA-SPDM
(PCIe r6.2 sec 6.31) requires parsing X.509 certificates upon
device enumeration, which happens in a subsys_initcall().

Parsing X.509 certificates accesses the blacklist keyring:
x509_cert_parse()
  x509_get_sig_params()
    is_hash_blacklisted()
      keyring_search()

So far the keyring is created much later in a device_initcall().  Avoid
a NULL pointer dereference on access to the keyring by creating it one
initcall level earlier than PCI device enumeration, i.e. in an
arch_initcall().

Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Wilfred Mallawa <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <[e-mail]>
---
 certs/blacklist.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/certs/blacklist.c b/certs/blacklist.c
index 675dd7a8f07a..34185415d451 100644
--- a/certs/blacklist.c
+++ b/certs/blacklist.c
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@  static int restrict_link_for_blacklist(struct key *dest_keyring,
  * Initialise the blacklist
  *
  * The blacklist_init() function is registered as an initcall via
- * device_initcall().  As a result if the blacklist_init() function fails for
+ * arch_initcall().  As a result if the blacklist_init() function fails for
  * any reason the kernel continues to execute.  While cleanly returning -ENODEV
  * could be acceptable for some non-critical kernel parts, if the blacklist
  * keyring fails to load it defeats the certificate/key based deny list for
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@  static int __init blacklist_init(void)
 /*
  * Must be initialised before we try and load the keys into the keyring.
  */
-device_initcall(blacklist_init);
+arch_initcall(blacklist_init);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSTEM_REVOCATION_LIST
 /*