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Joel Fernandes (Google) 8af21ac176 BACKPORT: perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks
In current mainline, the degree of access to perf_event_open(2) system
call depends on the perf_event_paranoid sysctl.  This has a number of
limitations:

1. The sysctl is only a single value. Many types of accesses are controlled
   based on the single value thus making the control very limited and
   coarse grained.
2. The sysctl is global, so if the sysctl is changed, then that means
   all processes get access to perf_event_open(2) opening the door to
   security issues.

This patch adds LSM and SELinux access checking which will be used in
Android to access perf_event_open(2) for the purposes of attaching BPF
programs to tracepoints, perf profiling and other operations from
userspace. These operations are intended for production systems.

5 new LSM hooks are added:
1. perf_event_open: This controls access during the perf_event_open(2)
   syscall itself. The hook is called from all the places that the
   perf_event_paranoid sysctl is checked to keep it consistent with the
   systctl. The hook gets passed a 'type' argument which controls CPU,
   kernel and tracepoint accesses (in this context, CPU, kernel and
   tracepoint have the same semantics as the perf_event_paranoid sysctl).
   Additionally, I added an 'open' type which is similar to
   perf_event_paranoid sysctl == 3 patch carried in Android and several other
   distros but was rejected in mainline [1] in 2016.

2. perf_event_alloc: This allocates a new security object for the event
   which stores the current SID within the event. It will be useful when
   the perf event's FD is passed through IPC to another process which may
   try to read the FD. Appropriate security checks will limit access.

3. perf_event_free: Called when the event is closed.

4. perf_event_read: Called from the read(2) and mmap(2) syscalls for the event.

5. perf_event_write: Called from the ioctl(2) syscalls for the event.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/696240/

Since Peter had suggest LSM hooks in 2016 [1], I am adding his
Suggested-by tag below.

To use this patch, we set the perf_event_paranoid sysctl to -1 and then
apply selinux checking as appropriate (default deny everything, and then
add policy rules to give access to domains that need it). In the future
we can remove the perf_event_paranoid sysctl altogether.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: jeffv@google.com
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: primiano@google.com
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: rsavitski@google.com
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthewgarrett@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191014170308.70668-1-joel@joelfernandes.org

Bug: 137092007
Change-Id: I591c6ad6c82ab9133409e51383d2c9b9f6ae4545
(cherry picked from commit da97e18458)
[ Ryan Savitski:
  Resolved conflicts with existing code, no new functionality ]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Savitski <rsavitski@google.com>
2020-01-07 22:30:02 +00:00
arch BACKPORT: perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks 2020-01-07 22:30:02 +00:00
block This is the 4.19.90 stable release 2019-12-18 09:03:30 +01:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto This is the 4.19.89 stable release 2019-12-13 10:01:10 +01:00
Documentation Merge remote-tracking branch 'aosp/upstream-f2fs-stable-linux-4.19.y/v5.5-rc1' into android-4.19 2019-12-18 10:26:14 -08:00
drivers This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
include BACKPORT: perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks 2020-01-07 22:30:02 +00:00
init ANDROID: Kconfig.gki: Add Hidden SPRD DRM configs 2019-12-26 17:46:51 +00:00
ipc This is the 4.19.65 stable release 2019-08-06 20:08:18 +02:00
kernel BACKPORT: perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks 2020-01-07 22:30:02 +00:00
lib This is the 4.19.90 stable release 2019-12-18 09:03:30 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Remove CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text 2018-10-18 11:28:50 +02:00
mm Merge remote-tracking branch 'aosp/upstream-f2fs-stable-linux-4.19.y/v5.5-rc1' into android-4.19 2019-12-18 10:26:14 -08:00
net This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
samples samples: pktgen: fix proc_cmd command result check logic 2019-12-31 16:34:59 +01:00
scripts This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
security BACKPORT: perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks 2020-01-07 22:30:02 +00:00
sound This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
tools This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
usr kbuild: clean compressed initramfs image 2019-10-07 18:57:16 +02:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't rely on the wrong pending table 2019-12-13 08:52:45 +01:00
.clang-format clang-format: Set IndentWrappedFunctionNames false 2018-08-01 18:38:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
abi_gki_aarch64.xml ANDROID: update ABI representation 2020-01-06 21:04:48 +00:00
abi_gki_aarch64_whitelist ANDROID: add initial ABI whitelist for android-4.19 2019-12-18 12:44:33 +00:00
build.config.aarch64 ANDROID: refactor build.config files to remove duplication 2019-10-22 18:27:12 -07:00
build.config.allmodconfig ANDROID: Don't base allmodconfig on gki_defconfig 2019-12-05 12:48:26 +00:00
build.config.allmodconfig.aarch64 ANDROID: Add allmodconfig build.configs for x86_64 and aarch64 2019-11-12 20:55:23 +00:00
build.config.allmodconfig.x86_64 ANDROID: Add allmodconfig build.configs for x86_64 and aarch64 2019-11-12 20:55:23 +00:00
build.config.common ANDROID: clang: update to 10.0.1 2019-11-27 12:37:18 -08:00
build.config.gki ANDROID: refactor build.config files to remove duplication 2019-10-22 18:27:12 -07:00
build.config.gki.aarch64 ANDROID: add initial ABI whitelist for android-4.19 2019-12-18 12:44:33 +00:00
build.config.gki.x86_64 ANDROID: refactor build.config files to remove duplication 2019-10-22 18:27:12 -07:00
build.config.x86_64 ANDROID: refactor build.config files to remove duplication 2019-10-22 18:27:12 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS 9p: remove Ron Minnich from MAINTAINERS 2018-08-17 16:20:26 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS This is the 4.19.80 stable release 2019-10-17 15:33:07 -07:00
Makefile This is the 4.19.93 stable release 2020-01-04 19:29:03 +01:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.