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Revert "firmware_loader: use kernel credentials when reading firmware"

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This reverts commit 5a73581116.

Introduces incompatible behavior in android12-5.10 which broke
partner devices. Discussion this topic is in b/222166126. The
new behavior should be fine for android13 and later kernels.

The patch was merged into android12-5.10 with the latest LTS
update.

Bug: 247895237
Bug: 248989172
Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Change-Id: Id8b617b5c91fc080c3b3cbe7ba55cd231bef5cfd
This commit is contained in:
Todd Kjos
2022-10-10 10:21:23 -07:00
parent 95f23ced41
commit 9613bc53b5
1 changed files with 0 additions and 17 deletions
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drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c
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@@ -793,8 +793,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
size_t offset, u32 opt_flags)
{
struct firmware *fw = NULL;
struct cred *kern_cred = NULL;
const struct cred *old_cred;
bool nondirect = false;
int ret;
@@ -811,18 +809,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
goto out;
/*
* We are about to try to access the firmware file. Because we may have been
* called by a driver when serving an unrelated request from userland, we use
* the kernel credentials to read the file.
*/
kern_cred = prepare_kernel_cred(NULL);
if (!kern_cred) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
old_cred = override_creds(kern_cred);
ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL);
/* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */
@@ -848,9 +834,6 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
} else
ret = assign_fw(fw, device);
revert_creds(old_cred);
put_cred(kern_cred);
out:
if (ret < 0) {
fw_abort_batch_reqs(fw);