[PATCH net-next v7 3/5] security: bpf: Add LSM hooks for bpf object related syscall

James Morris james.l.morris at oracle.com
Fri Oct 20 00:54:20 UTC 2017


On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Chenbo Feng wrote:

> From: Chenbo Feng <fengc at google.com>
> 
> Introduce several LSM hooks for the syscalls that will allow the
> userspace to access to eBPF object such as eBPF programs and eBPF maps.
> The security check is aimed to enforce a per object security protection
> for eBPF object so only processes with the right priviliges can
> read/write to a specific map or use a specific eBPF program. Besides
> that, a general security hook is added before the multiplexer of bpf
> syscall to check the cmd and the attribute used for the command. The
> actual security module can decide which command need to be checked and
> how the cmd should be checked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chenbo Feng <fengc at google.com>


Acked-by: James Morris <james.l.morris at oracle.com>

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