Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 13/16] tracing: allow eBPF programs to be attached to events

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:

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eBPF programs can call in-kernel helper functions to:
- lookup/update/delete elements in maps
- memcmp
- trace_printk
- load_pointer
- dump_stack

Ah, this must be the pointer leaking you mentioned. :)


Can the existing tracing mechanisms already expose kernel addresses? I
suspect "yes". So I guess existing limitations on tracing exposure
should already cover access control here? (I'm trying to figure out if
a separate CONFIG is needed -- I don't think so: nothing "new" is
exposed via eBPF, is that right?)

correct. through debugfs/tracing the whole kernel is already exposed.
Idea of eBPF for tracing is to give kernel developers and performance
engineers a tool to analyze what kernel is doing by writing programs
in C and attaching them to kprobe/tracepoint events, so it's definitely
for root only.