[PATCH 23/24] Lock down perf
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2018-04-11 16:27:14
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linux-man, linux-security-module, lkml
Subsystem:
performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds
Disallow the use of certain perf facilities that might allow userspace to access kernel data. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> --- kernel/events/core.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index fc1c330c6bd6..1922f2e0980a 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c@@ -10407,6 +10407,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open, return -EINVAL; } + if ((attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR) && + kernel_is_locked_down("PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR")) + /* REGS_INTR can leak data, lockdown must prevent this */ + return -EPERM; + /* Only privileged users can get physical addresses */ if ((attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_PHYS_ADDR) && perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))