Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:39:43 -0700 | From | Pawan Gupta <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH ebpf] bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default |
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On 27.10.2021 23:21, Daniel Borkmann wrote: >Hello Pawan, > >On 10/27/21 10:51 PM, Pawan Gupta wrote: >>Disabling unprivileged BPF by default would help prevent unprivileged >>users from creating the conditions required for potential speculative >>execution side-channel attacks on affected hardware as demonstrated by >>[1][2][3]. >> >>This will sync mainline with what most distros are currently applying. >>An admin can enable this at runtime if necessary. >> >>Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com> >> >>[1] https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-7308 >>[2] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3490 >>[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672355#c5 > >Some of your above quoted links are just random ?! For example, [2] has really _zero_ to >do with what you wrote with regards to speculative execution side-channel attacks ... > >We recently did a deep dive on our mitigation work we did in BPF here [0]. This also includes >an appendix with an extract of the main commits related to the different Spectre variants. > >I'd suggest to link to that one instead to avoid confusion on what is related and what not. > > [0] https://ebpf.io/summit-2021-slides/eBPF_Summit_2021-Keynote-Daniel_Borkmann-BPF_and_Spectre.pdf
Sure, I will add reference to this presentation.
>>--- >> kernel/bpf/Kconfig | 5 +++++ >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) >> >>diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig >>index a82d6de86522..73d446294455 100644 >>--- a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig >>+++ b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig >>@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON >> config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF >> bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" >>+ default y > >Hm, arm arch has a CPU_SPECTRE Kconfig symbol, see commit c58d237d0852 ("ARM: spectre: >add Kconfig symbol for CPUs vulnerable to Spectre") that can be selected. > >Would be good to generalize it for reuse so archs can select it, and make the above as >'default y if CPU_SPECTRE'.
Thanks for your feedback, I will send a v2 soon. I guess below is how you want it to be:
--- diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 8df1c7102643..6aa856d51cb7 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -1091,6 +1091,9 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_RT config CPU_NO_EFFICIENT_FFS def_bool n +config CPU_SPECTRE + bool + config HAVE_ARCH_VMAP_STACK def_bool n help diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig index 8355c3895894..44551465fd03 100644 --- a/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig +++ b/arch/arm/mm/Kconfig @@ -828,9 +828,6 @@ config CPU_BPREDICT_DISABLE help Say Y here to disable branch prediction. If unsure, say N. -config CPU_SPECTRE - bool - config HARDEN_BRANCH_PREDICTOR bool "Harden the branch predictor against aliasing attacks" if EXPERT depends on CPU_SPECTRE diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index d9830e7e1060..769739da67c6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ config X86 select CLKEVT_I8253 select CLOCKSOURCE_VALIDATE_LAST_CYCLE select CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG + select CPU_SPECTRE select DCACHE_WORD_ACCESS select EDAC_ATOMIC_SCRUB select EDAC_SUPPORT diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig index a82d6de86522..510a5a73f9a2 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default" + default y if CPU_SPECTRE depends on BPF_SYSCALL help Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding @@ -72,6 +73,10 @@ config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to 0 is possible anymore). + Unprivileged BPF can be used to exploit potential speculative + execution side-channel vulnerabilities on affected hardware. If you + are concerned about it, answer Y. + source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig" config BPF_LSM
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