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[V40,22/29] lockdown: Lock down tracing and perf kprobes when in confidentiality mode

Message ID 20190820001805.241928-23-matthewgarrett@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Add kernel lockdown functionality | expand

Commit Message

Matthew Garrett Aug. 20, 2019, 12:17 a.m. UTC 
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Disallow the creation of perf and ftrace kprobes when the kernel is
locked down in confidentiality mode by preventing their registration.
This prevents kprobes from being used to access kernel memory to steal
crypto data, but continues to allow the use of kprobes from signed
modules.

Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
 include/linux/security.h     | 1 +
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c  | 5 +++++
 security/lockdown/lockdown.c | 1 +
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 669e8de5299d..0b2529dbf0f4 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@  enum lockdown_reason {
 	LOCKDOWN_MMIOTRACE,
 	LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
 	LOCKDOWN_KCORE,
+	LOCKDOWN_KPROBES,
 	LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
 };
 
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 7d736248a070..fcb28b0702b2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/error-injection.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
 
 #include "trace_dynevent.h"
 #include "trace_kprobe_selftest.h"
@@ -415,6 +416,10 @@  static int __register_trace_kprobe(struct trace_kprobe *tk)
 {
 	int i, ret;
 
+	ret = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_KPROBES);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	if (trace_probe_is_registered(&tk->tp))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index 403b30357f75..27b2cf51e443 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@  static char *lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
 	[LOCKDOWN_MMIOTRACE] = "unsafe mmio",
 	[LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity",
 	[LOCKDOWN_KCORE] = "/proc/kcore access",
+	[LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes",
 	[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX] = "confidentiality",
 };