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From: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Subject: Relax kern_version constraints on bpf kprobes?
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:01:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160724040139.GA2025@ircssh.c.rugged-nimbus-611.internal> (raw)

In kernel/bpf/syscall.c we restrict programs loading bpf kprobe programs so 
attr.kern_version must be exactly equal to what the user is running at the 
moment. This makes a lot of sense because kprobes can touch lots of
unstable bits of the kernel ABI. 

Unfortunately, this makes it really difficult to ship binary bpf programs
for debugging, and most customers don't want to go through all the steps
of preparing for compilation and installation of bpf programs for their 
specific kernel that was shipped by their vendor. 

This is especially problematic when the probe is touching only stable ABIs
(syscalls), or alternatively is just logging performance events. I realize
that we can change this section pretty easily by reading the version at
load time and modifying it, but it's kind of a pain.

For programs that we know are safe, is there a mechanism by which we can
bypass this check, and tell the loader that we know what we're doing
since these programs are only accessible to CAP_SYS_ADMIN?

             reply	other threads:[~2016-07-24  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-07-24  4:01 Sargun Dhillon [this message]
2016-07-24  4:36 ` Alexei Starovoitov

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