lockdown: Lock down perf when in confidentiality mode

Disallow the use of certain perf facilities that might allow userspace to
access kernel data.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <[email protected]>

include/linux/security.h

@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ enum lockdown_reason {
 	LOCKDOWN_KCORE,
 	LOCKDOWN_KPROBES,
 	LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ,
+	LOCKDOWN_PERF,
 	LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
 };
 

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -10798,6 +10798,13 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 	    perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EACCES;
 
+	err = security_locked_down(LOCKDOWN_PERF);
+	if (err && (attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR))
+		/* REGS_INTR can leak data, lockdown must prevent this */
+		return err;
+
+	err = 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * In cgroup mode, the pid argument is used to pass the fd
 	 * opened to the cgroup directory in cgroupfs. The cpu argument

security/lockdown/lockdown.c

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static char *lockdown_reasons[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX+1] = {
 	[LOCKDOWN_KCORE] = "/proc/kcore access",
 	[LOCKDOWN_KPROBES] = "use of kprobes",
 	[LOCKDOWN_BPF_READ] = "use of bpf to read kernel RAM",
+	[LOCKDOWN_PERF] = "unsafe use of perf",
 	[LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX] = "confidentiality",
 };