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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/bpf
parent9b022a6e0f26af108b9105b16b310393c898d9bd (diff)
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/bpf')
-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