From: David Howells Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 16:54:22 +0100 Subject: [06/62] Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/clocksource/ Origin: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/commit?id=8a3dad31f7c45c744a27dd6c7587efc2330bafd7 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/clocksource/. Suggested-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: David Howells cc: Daniel Lezcano cc: Thomas Gleixner cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c b/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c index 9a7e37cf56b0..a1df588343f2 100644 --- a/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c +++ b/drivers/clocksource/cs5535-clockevt.c @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ #define DRV_NAME "cs5535-clockevt" static int timer_irq; -module_param_named(irq, timer_irq, int, 0644); +module_param_hw_named(irq, timer_irq, int, irq, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "Which IRQ to use for the clock source MFGPT ticks."); /*