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<title>tracing: Add length protection to histogram string copies</title>
<updated>2021-11-26T09:39:14Z</updated>
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<published>2021-11-14T18:28:34Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 938aa33f14657c9ed9deea348b7d6f14b6d69cb7 ]

The string copies to the histogram storage has a max size of 256 bytes
(defined by MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL). Only the string size of the event field
needs to be copied to the event storage, but no more than what is in the
event storage. Although nothing should be bigger than 256 bytes, there's
no protection against overwriting of the storage if one day there is.

Copy no more than the destination size, and enforce it.

Also had to turn MAX_FILTER_STR_VAL into an unsigned int, to keep the
min() comparison of the string sizes of comparable types.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjREUihCGrtRBwfX47y_KrLCGjiq3t6QtoNJpmVrAEb1w@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211114132834.183429a4@rorschach.local.home

Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 63f84ae6b82b ("tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/histogram: Do not copy the fixed-size char array field over the field size</title>
<updated>2021-11-26T09:39:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-12T16:02:08Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 63f84ae6b82bb4dff672f76f30c6fd7b9d3766bc ]

Do not copy the fixed-size char array field of the events over
the field size. The histogram treats char array as a string and
there are 2 types of char array in the event, fixed-size and
dynamic string. The dynamic string (__data_loc) field must be
null terminated, but the fixed-size char array field may not
be null terminated (not a string, but just a data).
In that case, histogram can copy the data after the field.
This uses the original field size for fixed-size char array
field to restrict the histogram not to access over the original
field size.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/163673292822.195747.3696966210526410250.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 02205a6752f2 (tracing: Add support for 'field variables')
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/cfi: Fix cmp_entries_* functions signature mismatch</title>
<updated>2021-11-18T13:03:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kalesh Singh</name>
<email>kaleshsingh@google.com</email>
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<published>2021-10-14T04:52:17Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 7ce1bb83a14019f8c396d57ec704d19478747716 ]

If CONFIG_CFI_CLANG=y, attempting to read an event histogram will cause
the kernel to panic due to failed CFI check.

    1. echo 'hist:keys=common_pid' &gt;&gt; events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
    2. cat events/sched/sched_switch/hist
    3. kernel panics on attempting to read hist

This happens because the sort() function expects a generic
int (*)(const void *, const void *) pointer for the compare function.
To prevent this CFI failure, change tracing map cmp_entries_* function
signatures to match this.

Also, fix the build error reported by the kernel test robot [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/202110141140.zzi4dRh4-lkp@intel.com/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211014045217.3265162-1-kaleshsingh@google.com

Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh &lt;kaleshsingh@google.com&gt;
Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>ring-buffer: Protect ring_buffer_reset() from reentrancy</title>
<updated>2021-11-18T13:03:49Z</updated>
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<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2021-11-08T15:58:10Z</published>
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commit 51d157946666382e779f94c39891e8e9a020da78 upstream.

The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset
each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization.
But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU.
The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed
by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU
buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences
of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is
nothing to protect from it.

Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" &lt;tz.stoyanov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>tracing: Have all levels of checks prevent recursion</title>
<updated>2021-10-27T07:56:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
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<published>2021-10-18T19:44:12Z</published>
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commit ed65df63a39a3f6ed04f7258de8b6789e5021c18 upstream.

While writing an email explaining the "bit = 0" logic for a discussion on
making ftrace_test_recursion_trylock() disable preemption, I discovered a
path that makes the "not do the logic if bit is zero" unsafe.

The recursion logic is done in hot paths like the function tracer. Thus,
any code executed causes noticeable overhead. Thus, tricks are done to try
to limit the amount of code executed. This included the recursion testing
logic.

Having recursion testing is important, as there are many paths that can
end up in an infinite recursion cycle when tracing every function in the
kernel. Thus protection is needed to prevent that from happening.

Because it is OK to recurse due to different running context levels (e.g.
an interrupt preempts a trace, and then a trace occurs in the interrupt
handler), a set of bits are used to know which context one is in (normal,
softirq, irq and NMI). If a recursion occurs in the same level, it is
prevented*.

Then there are infrastructure levels of recursion as well. When more than
one callback is attached to the same function to trace, it calls a loop
function to iterate over all the callbacks. Both the callbacks and the
loop function have recursion protection. The callbacks use the
"ftrace_test_recursion_trylock()" which has a "function" set of context
bits to test, and the loop function calls the internal
trace_test_and_set_recursion() directly, with an "internal" set of bits.

If an architecture does not implement all the features supported by ftrace
then the callbacks are never called directly, and the loop function is
called instead, which will implement the features of ftrace.

Since both the loop function and the callbacks do recursion protection, it
was seemed unnecessary to do it in both locations. Thus, a trick was made
to have the internal set of recursion bits at a more significant bit
location than the function bits. Then, if any of the higher bits were set,
the logic of the function bits could be skipped, as any new recursion
would first have to go through the loop function.

This is true for architectures that do not support all the ftrace
features, because all functions being traced must first go through the
loop function before going to the callbacks. But this is not true for
architectures that support all the ftrace features. That's because the
loop function could be called due to two callbacks attached to the same
function, but then a recursion function inside the callback could be
called that does not share any other callback, and it will be called
directly.

i.e.

 traced_function_1: [ more than one callback tracing it ]
   call loop_func

 loop_func:
   trace_recursion set internal bit
   call callback

 callback:
   trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ]
   call traced_function_2

 traced_function_2: [ only traced by above callback ]
   call callback

 callback:
   trace_recursion [ skipped because internal bit is set, return 0 ]
   call traced_function_2

 [ wash, rinse, repeat, BOOM! out of shampoo! ]

Thus, the "bit == 0 skip" trick is not safe, unless the loop function is
call for all functions.

Since we want to encourage architectures to implement all ftrace features,
having them slow down due to this extra logic may encourage the
maintainers to update to the latest ftrace features. And because this
logic is only safe for them, remove it completely.

 [*] There is on layer of recursion that is allowed, and that is to allow
     for the transition between interrupt context (normal -&gt; softirq -&gt;
     irq -&gt; NMI), because a trace may occur before the context update is
     visible to the trace recursion logic.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/609b565a-ed6e-a1da-f025-166691b5d994@linux.alibaba.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211018154412.09fcad3c@gandalf.local.home

Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Petr Mladek &lt;pmladek@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul.walmsley@sifive.com&gt;
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt &lt;palmer@dabbelt.com&gt;
Cc: Albert Ou &lt;aou@eecs.berkeley.edu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Kosina &lt;jikos@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Joe Lawrence &lt;joe.lawrence@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jisheng Zhang &lt;jszhang@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: =?utf-8?b?546L6LSH?= &lt;yun.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Cc: Guo Ren &lt;guoren@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: edc15cafcbfa3 ("tracing: Avoid unnecessary multiple recursion checks")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<title>blktrace: Fix uaf in blk_trace access after removing by sysfs</title>
<updated>2021-09-30T08:11:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhihao Cheng</name>
<email>chengzhihao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-23T13:49:21Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5afedf670caf30a2b5a52da96eb7eac7dee6a9c9 ]

There is an use-after-free problem triggered by following process:

      P1(sda)				P2(sdb)
			echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sdb/trace/enable
			  blk_trace_remove_queue
			    synchronize_rcu
			    blk_trace_free
			      relay_close
rcu_read_lock
__blk_add_trace
  trace_note_tsk
  (Iterate running_trace_list)
			        relay_close_buf
				  relay_destroy_buf
				    kfree(buf)
    trace_note(sdb's bt)
      relay_reserve
        buf-&gt;offset &lt;- nullptr deference (use-after-free) !!!
rcu_read_unlock

[  502.714379] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address:
0000000000000010
[  502.715260] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  502.715903] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  502.716546] PGD 103984067 P4D 103984067 PUD 17592b067 PMD 0
[  502.717252] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[  502.720308] RIP: 0010:trace_note.isra.0+0x86/0x360
[  502.732872] Call Trace:
[  502.733193]  __blk_add_trace.cold+0x137/0x1a3
[  502.733734]  blk_add_trace_rq+0x7b/0xd0
[  502.734207]  blk_add_trace_rq_issue+0x54/0xa0
[  502.734755]  blk_mq_start_request+0xde/0x1b0
[  502.735287]  scsi_queue_rq+0x528/0x1140
...
[  502.742704]  sg_new_write.isra.0+0x16e/0x3e0
[  502.747501]  sg_ioctl+0x466/0x1100

Reproduce method:
  ioctl(/dev/sda, BLKTRACESETUP, blk_user_trace_setup[buf_size=127])
  ioctl(/dev/sda, BLKTRACESTART)
  ioctl(/dev/sdb, BLKTRACESETUP, blk_user_trace_setup[buf_size=127])
  ioctl(/dev/sdb, BLKTRACESTART)

  echo 0 &gt; /sys/block/sdb/trace/enable &amp;
  // Add delay(mdelay/msleep) before kernel enters blk_trace_free()

  ioctl$SG_IO(/dev/sda, SG_IO, ...)
  // Enters trace_note_tsk() after blk_trace_free() returned
  // Use mdelay in rcu region rather than msleep(which may schedule out)

Remove blk_trace from running_list before calling blk_trace_free() by
sysfs if blk_trace is at Blktrace_running state.

Fixes: c71a896154119f ("blktrace: add ftrace plugin")
Signed-off-by: Zhihao Cheng &lt;chengzhihao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210923134921.109194-1-chengzhihao1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/boot: Fix a hist trigger dependency for boot time tracing</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T10:28:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-10T02:07:14Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6fe7c745f2acb73e4cc961d7f91125eef5a8861f ]

Fixes a build error when CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS=n with boot-time
tracing. Since the trigger_process_regex() is defined only
when CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS=y, if it is disabled, the 'actions'
event option also must be disabled.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162856123376.203126.582144262622247352.stgit@devnote2

Fixes: 81a59555ff15 ("tracing/boot: Add per-event settings")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing/probes: Reject events which have the same name of existing one</title>
<updated>2021-09-22T10:28:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-19T10:26:02Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8e242060c6a4947e8ae7d29794af6a581db08841 ]

Since kprobe_events and uprobe_events only check whether the
other same-type probe event has the same name or not, if the
user gives the same name of the existing tracepoint event (or
the other type of probe events), it silently fails to create
the tracefs entry (but registered.) as below.

/sys/kernel/tracing # ls events/task/task_rename
enable   filter   format   hist     id       trigger
/sys/kernel/tracing # echo p:task/task_rename vfs_read &gt;&gt; kprobe_events
[  113.048508] Could not create tracefs 'task_rename' directory
/sys/kernel/tracing # cat kprobe_events
p:task/task_rename vfs_read

To fix this issue, check whether the existing events have the
same name or not in trace_probe_register_event_call(). If exists,
it rejects to register the new event.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/162936876189.187130.17558311387542061930.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>tracing / histogram: Fix NULL pointer dereference on strcmp() on NULL event name</title>
<updated>2021-08-26T12:35:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Steven Rostedt (VMware)</name>
<email>rostedt@goodmis.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-08T04:30:11Z</published>
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[ Upstream commit 5acce0bff2a0420ce87d4591daeb867f47d552c2 ]

The following commands:

 # echo 'read_max u64 size;' &gt; synthetic_events
 # echo 'hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)' &gt; events/syscalls/sys_enter_read/trigger

Causes:

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 0 P4D 0
 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
 CPU: 4 PID: 1763 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.14.0-rc2-test+ #155
 Hardware name: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF/339A, BIOS K01
v03.03 07/14/2016
 RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x20
 Code: 75 f7 31 c0 0f b6 0c 06 88 0c 02 48 83 c0 01 84 c9 75 f1 4c 89 c0
c3 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 0f &lt;0f&gt; b6 14 07
3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 31 c0 c3 66 90 48 89
 RSP: 0018:ffffb5fdc0963ca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffb3a4e040 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff9714c0d0b640 RDI: 0000000000000000
 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 00000022986b7cde R09: ffffffffb3a4dff8
 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9714c50603c8
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff97143fdf9e48 R15: ffff9714c01a2210
 FS:  00007f1fa6785740(0000) GS:ffff9714da400000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000002d863004 CR4: 00000000001706e0
 Call Trace:
  __find_event_file+0x4e/0x80
  action_create+0x6b7/0xeb0
  ? kstrdup+0x44/0x60
  event_hist_trigger_func+0x1a07/0x2130
  trigger_process_regex+0xbd/0x110
  event_trigger_write+0x71/0xd0
  vfs_write+0xe9/0x310
  ksys_write+0x68/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
 RIP: 0033:0x7f1fa6879e87

The problem was the "trace(read_max,count)" where the "count" should be
"$count" as "onmax()" only handles variables (although it really should be
able to figure out that "count" is a field of sys_enter_read). But there's
a path that does not find the variable and ends up passing a NULL for the
event, which ends up getting passed to "strcmp()".

Add a check for NULL to return and error on the command with:

 # cat error_log
  hist:syscalls:sys_enter_read: error: Couldn't create or find variable
  Command: hist:keys=common_pid:count=count:onmax($count).trace(read_max,count)
                                ^
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210808003011.4037f8d0@oasis.local.home

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 50450603ec9cb tracing: Add 'onmax' hist trigger action support
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;zanussi@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Add lockdown check for probe_write_user helper</title>
<updated>2021-08-15T12:00:25Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>daniel@iogearbox.net</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-09T10:43:17Z</published>
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commit 51e1bb9eeaf7868db56e58f47848e364ab4c4129 upstream.

Back then, commit 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper
to be called in tracers") added the bpf_probe_write_user() helper in order
to allow to override user space memory. Its original goal was to have a
facility to "debug, divert, and manipulate execution of semi-cooperative
processes" under CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Write to kernel was explicitly disallowed
since it would otherwise tamper with its integrity.

One use case was shown in cf9b1199de27 ("samples/bpf: Add test/example of
using bpf_probe_write_user bpf helper") where the program DNATs traffic
at the time of connect(2) syscall, meaning, it rewrites the arguments to
a syscall while they're still in userspace, and before the syscall has a
chance to copy the argument into kernel space. These days we have better
mechanisms in BPF for achieving the same (e.g. for load-balancers), but
without having to write to userspace memory.

Of course the bpf_probe_write_user() helper can also be used to abuse
many other things for both good or bad purpose. Outside of BPF, there is
a similar mechanism for ptrace(2) such as PTRACE_PEEK{TEXT,DATA} and
PTRACE_POKE{TEXT,DATA}, but would likely require some more effort.
Commit 96ae52279594 explicitly dedicated the helper for experimentation
purpose only. Thus, move the helper's availability behind a newly added
LOCKDOWN_BPF_WRITE_USER lockdown knob so that the helper is disabled under
the "integrity" mode. More fine-grained control can be implemented also
from LSM side with this change.

Fixes: 96ae52279594 ("bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;daniel@iogearbox.net&gt;
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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