From: David Howells Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:45:02 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Lock down kprobes X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/5.2.17-1+rpi1^2^2~38 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6ee97734f0e52ce67ba513734622a1d305a4d059;p=linux.git Lock down kprobes 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 Signed-off-by: David Howells Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all/lockdown Gbp-Pq: Name 0024-Lock-down-kprobes.patch --- diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 445337c107e..c7192c65bfb 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -1556,6 +1556,9 @@ 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))