openwrtv4/target/linux/generic/pending-4.9/920-mangle_bootargs.patch
Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant 9aa196e0f2 kernel: bump 4.9 to 4.9.96
Refresh patches, following required reworking:

ar71xx/patches-4.9/930-chipidea-pullup.patch
layerscape/patches-4.9/302-dts-support-layercape.patch
sunxi/patches-4.9/0052-stmmac-form-4-12.patch

Fixes for CVEs:
CVE-2018-1108
CVE-2018-1092

Tested on: ar71xx Archer C7 v2

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <ldir@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
Tested-by: Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte@ncentric.com>
Tested-by: Arjen de Korte <build+openwrt@de-korte.org>
2018-04-26 08:53:54 +02:00

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From: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
Subject: init: add CONFIG_MANGLE_BOOTARGS and disable it by default
Enabling this option renames the bootloader supplied root=
and rootfstype= variables, which might have to be know but
would break the automatisms OpenWrt uses.
Signed-off-by: Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>
---
init/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
init/main.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -1694,6 +1694,15 @@ config EMBEDDED
an embedded system so certain expert options are available
for configuration.
+config MANGLE_BOOTARGS
+ bool "Rename offending bootargs"
+ depends on EXPERT
+ help
+ Sometimes the bootloader passed bogus root= and rootfstype=
+ parameters to the kernel, and while you want to ignore them,
+ you need to know the values f.e. to support dual firmware
+ layouts on the flash.
+
config HAVE_PERF_EVENTS
bool
help
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -353,6 +353,29 @@ static inline void setup_nr_cpu_ids(void
static inline void smp_prepare_cpus(unsigned int maxcpus) { }
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_MANGLE_BOOTARGS
+static void __init mangle_bootargs(char *command_line)
+{
+ char *rootdev;
+ char *rootfs;
+
+ rootdev = strstr(command_line, "root=/dev/mtdblock");
+
+ if (rootdev)
+ strncpy(rootdev, "mangled_rootblock=", 18);
+
+ rootfs = strstr(command_line, "rootfstype");
+
+ if (rootfs)
+ strncpy(rootfs, "mangled_fs", 10);
+
+}
+#else
+static void __init mangle_bootargs(char *command_line)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* We need to store the untouched command line for future reference.
* We also need to store the touched command line since the parameter
@@ -506,6 +529,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_k
pr_notice("%s", linux_banner);
setup_arch(&command_line);
mm_init_cpumask(&init_mm);
+ mangle_bootargs(command_line);
setup_command_line(command_line);
setup_nr_cpu_ids();
setup_per_cpu_areas();