[PATCH 23/27] Lock down kprobes

Matthew Garrett matthewgarrett at google.com
Thu Feb 28 23:11:59 UTC 2019


From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

Disallow the creation of kprobes when the kernel is locked down by
preventing their registration.  This prevents kprobes from being used to
access kernel memory, either to make modifications or to steal crypto data.

Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index f4ddfdd2d07e..6f66cca8e2c6 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -1552,6 +1552,9 @@ int register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 	struct module *probed_mod;
 	kprobe_opcode_t *addr;
 
+	if (kernel_is_locked_down("Use of kprobes"))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	/* Adjust probe address from symbol */
 	addr = kprobe_addr(p);
 	if (IS_ERR(addr))
-- 
2.21.0.352.gf09ad66450-goog



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