tree 52a24455a19c5c1400b1e78dc2c4e0402f783965
parent 3b60daf86b133f0b15e3eb9b767c6c1752af2bd6
author David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 1491321269 +0100
committer David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 1492686152 +0100

Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/

When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
device to access or modify the kernel image.

To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
default values for those parameters is.

Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
to manually coded parameters.

This patch annotates drivers in drivers/video/.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org