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[25/27] Lock down perf

Message ID 20190228231203.212359-25-matthewgarrett@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [PULL,REQUEST] Lock down patches | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Garrett Feb. 28, 2019, 11:12 p.m. UTC
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

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(+)
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diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 26d6edab051a..4265ce43bca4 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -10477,6 +10477,11 @@  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))