From: Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net
commit 51e1bb9eeaf7868db56e58f47848e364ab4c4129 upstream.
Back then, commit 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers") added the bpf_probe_write_user() helper in order to allow to override user space memory. Its original goal was to have a facility to "debug, divert, and manipulate execution of semi-cooperative processes" under CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Write to kernel was explicitly disallowed since it would otherwise tamper with its integrity.
One use case was shown in cf9b1199de27 ("samples/bpf: Add test/example of using bpf_probe_write_user bpf helper") where the program DNATs traffic at the time of connect(2) syscall, meaning, it rewrites the arguments to a syscall while they're still in userspace, and before the syscall has a chance to copy the argument into kernel space. These days we have better mechanisms in BPF for achieving the same (e.g. for load-balancers), but without having to write to userspace memory.
Of course the bpf_probe_write_user() helper can also be used to abuse many other things for both good or bad purpose. Outside of BPF, there is a similar mechanism for ptrace(2) such as PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA} and PTRACE_POKE{TEXT,DATA}, but would likely require some more effort. Commit 96ae52279594 explicitly dedicated the helper for experimentation purpose only. Thus, move the helper's availability behind a newly added LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER lockdown knob so that the helper is disabled under the "integrity" mode. More fine-grained control can be implemented also from LSM side with this change.
Fixes: 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann daniel@iogearbox.net Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- include/linux/security.h | 1 + kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 5 +++-- security/security.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason { LOCKDOWN_MMIOTRACE, LOCKDOWN_DEBUGFS, LOCKDOWN_XMON_WR, + LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER, LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX, LOCKDOWN_KCORE, LOCKDOWN_KPROBES, --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c @@ -990,12 +990,13 @@ bpf_tracing_func_proto(enum bpf_func_id return &bpf_get_numa_node_id_proto; case BPF_FUNC_perf_event_read: return &bpf_perf_event_read_proto; - case BPF_FUNC_probe_write_user: - return bpf_get_probe_write_proto(); case BPF_FUNC_current_task_under_cgroup: return &bpf_current_task_under_cgroup_proto; case BPF_FUNC_get_prandom_u32: return &bpf_get_prandom_u32_proto; + case BPF_FUNC_probe_write_user: + return security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER) < 0 ? + NULL : bpf_get_probe_write_proto(); case BPF_FUNC_probe_read_user: return &bpf_probe_read_user_proto; case BPF_FUNC_probe_read_kernel: --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ const char *const lockdown_reasons[LOCKD [LOCKDOWN_MMIOTRACE] = "unsafe mmio", [LOCKDOWN_DEBUGFS] = "debugfs access", [LOCKDOWN_XMON_WR] = "xmon write access", + [LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER] = "use of bpf to write user RAM", [LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX] = "integrity", [LOCKDOWN_KCORE] = "/proc/kcore access", [LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes",