Re: [PATCH 18/27] bpf: Restrict kernel image access functions when the kernel is locked down

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 11:57:48PM +0800, jlee@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:08:48AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > Hi Joey,
> > 
> > Should I just lock down sys_bpf() entirely for now?  We can always free it up
> > somewhat later.
> > 
> > David
> 
> OK~~ Please just remove my patch until we find out a way to
> verify bpf code or protect sensitive data in memory.
> 
> I think that we don't need to lock down sys_bpf() now because
> we didn't lock down other interfaces for reading arbitrary
> address like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem.

If you want to lock down read access you'd need to disable
not only bpf, but all of kprobe and likey ftrace, since
untrusted root can infer kernel data by observing function
execution even if it cannot load modules and bpf progs.