[RFC][PATCH] Lock down kprobes

From: David Howells
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 11:21:39 EST


Hi,

I need to lock down kprobes under secure boot conditions as part of the patch
series that can be found here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=efi-lock-down

Can you tell me that if the attached patch is sufficient to the cause?

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commit 9b736b76fbd7b23b54b4340e80c66f87df54016c
Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 8 16:14:12 2017 +0000

Lock down kprobes

Disallow the creation of kprobes when the kernel is locked down. This
patch restricts writing to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events; writing
to /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/enabled is disabled by the patch that locks
down debugfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index 8a907e12b6b9..b44f046d2582 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -907,6 +907,9 @@ static int probes_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
static ssize_t probes_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
+ if (kernel_is_locked_down("Use of kprobes"))
+ return -EPERM;
+
return traceprobe_probes_write(file, buffer, count, ppos,
create_trace_kprobe);
}