linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking

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Message-ID: <20101129163308.GA2383@xanatos>
Date:	Mon, 29 Nov 2010 08:33:24 -0800
From:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tj@...nel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com, w@....eu,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of
 attacking

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:48:09AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Sarah Sharp
> > <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > .config and dmesg are attached.  The box is running klogd 1.5.5ubuntu3
> > > (from Jaunty).  Yes, I know that's old.  I read the bit in the commit
> > > about changing the permissions of kallsyms after boot, but if I can't
> > > boot that doesn't help.  Perhaps this can be made a configuration
> > > option?
> > 
> > It's not worth a config option.
> > 
> > If it actually breaks user-space, I think we should just revert it.
> 
> Sarah,
> 
> Does your system boot fine if we make /proc/kallsyms simply an empty file to 
> unprivileged users? Something like the (untested ...) patch below.

Yes, that works.  The system boots as normal. `cat /proc/kallsyms`
returns an empty file, and `sudo cat /proc/kallsyms` does not.

Sarah Sharp


> diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> index 6f6d091..d54c993 100644
> --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c
> +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c
> @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ static int s_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
>  	struct kallsym_iter *iter = m->private;
>  
>  	/* Some debugging symbols have no name.  Ignore them. */
> -	if (!iter->name[0])
> +	if (!iter->name[0] || !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	if (iter->module_name[0]) {
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