From: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
commit 8a03e56b253e9691c90bc52ca199323d71b96204 upstream.
Disabling unprivileged BPF would help prevent unprivileged users from
creating certain conditions required for potential speculative execution
side-channel attacks on unmitigated affected hardware.
A deep dive on such attacks and current mitigations is available here [0].
Sync with what many distros are currently applying already, and disable
unprivileged BPF by default. An admin can enable this at runtime, if
necessary, as described in 08389d888287 ("bpf: Add kconfig knob for
disabling unpriv bpf by default").
[0] "BPF and Spectre: Mitigating transient execution attacks", Daniel
Borkmann, eBPF Summit '21
https://ebpf.io/summit-2021-slides/eBPF_Summit_2021-Keynote-Daniel_Borkmann-BPF_and_Spectre.pdf
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Link:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0ace9ce3f97656d5f62d11093ad7ee81190c3c25.1635535215.git.pawan.kumar.gu...@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
---
kernel/bpf/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Kconfig b/kernel/bpf/Kconfig
index a82d6de86522..d24d518ddd63 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
depends on BPF_SYSCALL
help
Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding
@@ -72,6 +73,12 @@ config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF
disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to
0 is possible anymore).
+ Unprivileged BPF could be used to exploit certain potential
+ speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities on unmitigated
+ affected hardware.
+
+ If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y.
+
source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
config BPF_LSM
--
2.32.0
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