Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] perf: Add pmu callbacks to track event mapping and unmapping

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2014 1:39 PM, "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > There's plenty of room to tighten up the restrictions further, but
> > > this is, I think, a decent first step, and it solves the problem of
> > > information leaking into seccomp sandboxes.
> >
> > In which way?
> 
> All the performance counters were readable without using any syscalls.
> That leaks hints as to which events are in use, and it possibly leaks
> interesting side channel information.   With this series applied, you
> need a at least mmap an rdpmc-able event, which most seccomp sandboxes
> won't allow.

Ok. So you are preventing the seccomp sandboxes to open/mmap a counter.
 
> Unfortunately, rdpmc access to counters can't be controlled
> individually, so it's hard to do all that much better than this.

Yeah, I know ...

Thanks,

	tglx
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