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authorSargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>2016-07-25 05:54:46 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-25 18:07:48 -0700
commit96ae52279594470622ff0585621a13e96b700600 (patch)
tree72b6be55be49c626dfd6d1b1ac2673b4a0cd649b /samples
parent9b022a6e0f26af108b9105b16b310393c898d9bd (diff)
downloadlinux-96ae52279594470622ff0585621a13e96b700600.tar.gz
bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers
This allows user memory to be written to during the course of a kprobe.
It shouldn't be used to implement any kind of security mechanism
because of TOC-TOU attacks, but rather to debug, divert, and
manipulate execution of semi-cooperative processes.

Although it uses probe_kernel_write, we limit the address space
the probe can write into by checking the space with access_ok.
We do this as opposed to calling copy_to_user directly, in order
to avoid sleeping. In addition we ensure the threads's current fs
/ segment is USER_DS and the thread isn't exiting nor a kernel thread.

Given this feature is meant for experiments, and it has a risk of
crashing the system, and running programs, we print a warning on
when a proglet that attempts to use this helper is installed,
along with the pid and process name.

Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'samples')
-rw-r--r--samples/bpf/bpf_helpers.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/samples/bpf/bpf_helpers.h b/samples/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
index 84e3fd919a06..217c8d507f2e 100644
--- a/samples/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
+++ b/samples/bpf/bpf_helpers.h
@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ static int (*bpf_perf_event_output)(void *ctx, void *map, int index, void *data,
 	(void *) BPF_FUNC_perf_event_output;
 static int (*bpf_get_stackid)(void *ctx, void *map, int flags) =
 	(void *) BPF_FUNC_get_stackid;
+static int (*bpf_probe_write_user)(void *dst, void *src, int size) =
+	(void *) BPF_FUNC_probe_write_user;
 
 /* llvm builtin functions that eBPF C program may use to
  * emit BPF_LD_ABS and BPF_LD_IND instructions