[PATCH ebpf v2 2/2] bpf: Make unprivileged bpf depend on CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE
From: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2021-10-28 01:33:32
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bpf, lkml
Subsystem:
bpf [general] (safe dynamic programs and tools), the rest · Maintainers:
Alexei Starovoitov, Daniel Borkmann, Andrii Nakryiko, Eduard Zingerman, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi, Linus Torvalds
Disabling unprivileged BPF would help prevent unprivileged users from creating the conditions required for potential speculative execution side-channel attacks on affected hardware. A deep dive on such attacks and mitigation is available here [1]. If an architecture selects CONFIG_CPU_SPECTRE, disable unprivileged BPF by default. An admin can enable this at runtime, if necessary. Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> [1] https://ebpf.io/summit-2021-slides/eBPF_Summit_2021-Keynote-Daniel_Borkmann-BPF_and_Spectre.pdf --- kernel/bpf/Kconfig | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig
index a82d6de86522..510a5a73f9a2 100644
--- a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" + default y if CPU_SPECTRE depends on BPF_SYSCALL help Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding
@@ -72,6 +73,10 @@ config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to 0 is possible anymore). + Unprivileged BPF can be used to exploit potential speculative + execution side-channel vulnerabilities on affected hardware. If you + are concerned about it, answer Y. + source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" config BPF_LSM
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