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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]> --- kernel/kprobes.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index a1606a4224e1..f06023b0936c 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -1530,6 +1530,9 @@ 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))
