linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 26/30] Lock down ftrace

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Date:   Fri, 10 Nov 2017 10:21:44 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com,
        Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        jforbes@...hat.com, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 26/30] Lock down ftrace

Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> wrote:

> > The idea is to prevent cryptographic data for filesystems and other things
> > from being read out of the kernel memory as well as to prevent unauthorised
> > modification of kernel memory.
> 
> Then it would make sense to actually lock down dumping of registers / 
> function arguments (kprobes can currently do that, ftrace eventually could 
> as well I guess), but disabling the whole ftrace altogether seems like a 
> totally unnecessary overkill.

That would be fine by me.  I have a patch that locks down kprobes in this
series.  Steven says that ftrace might acquire the ability to dump registers
in the future.

David