bpf: Add bpf_probe_write_user BPF helper to be called in tracers

This allows user memory to be written to during the course of a kprobe.
It shouldn't be used to implement any kind of security mechanism
because of TOC-TOU attacks, but rather to debug, divert, and
manipulate execution of semi-cooperative processes.

Although it uses probe_kernel_write, we limit the address space
the probe can write into by checking the space with access_ok.
We do this as opposed to calling copy_to_user directly, in order
to avoid sleeping. In addition we ensure the threads's current fs
/ segment is USER_DS and the thread isn't exiting nor a kernel thread.

Given this feature is meant for experiments, and it has a risk of
crashing the system, and running programs, we print a warning on
when a proglet that attempts to use this helper is installed,
along with the pid and process name.

Signed-off-by: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sargun Dhillon
2016-07-25 05:54:46 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 9b022a6e0f
commit 96ae522795
3 changed files with 57 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -365,6 +365,16 @@ enum bpf_func_id {
*/
BPF_FUNC_get_current_task,
/**
* bpf_probe_write_user(void *dst, void *src, int len)
* safely attempt to write to a location
* @dst: destination address in userspace
* @src: source address on stack
* @len: number of bytes to copy
* Return: 0 on success or negative error
*/
BPF_FUNC_probe_write_user,
__BPF_FUNC_MAX_ID,
};