bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default
authorPawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 29 Oct 2021 19:43:54 +0000 (12:43 -0700)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Mon, 1 Nov 2021 16:06:47 +0000 (17:06 +0100)
commit8a03e56b253e9691c90bc52ca199323d71b96204
tree5c4bdf42553fc742175e01f490a591088cf75468
parentf48ad69097fe79d1de13c4d8fef556d4c11c5e68
bpf: Disallow unprivileged bpf by default

Disabling unprivileged BPF would help prevent unprivileged users from
creating certain conditions required for potential speculative execution
side-channel attacks on unmitigated affected hardware.

A deep dive on such attacks and current mitigations is available here [0].

Sync with what many distros are currently applying already, and disable
unprivileged BPF by default. An admin can enable this at runtime, if
necessary, as described in 08389d888287 ("bpf: Add kconfig knob for
disabling unpriv bpf by default").

  [0] "BPF and Spectre: Mitigating transient execution attacks", Daniel Borkmann, eBPF Summit '21
      https://ebpf.io/summit-2021-slides/eBPF_Summit_2021-Keynote-Daniel_Borkmann-BPF_and_Spectre.pdf

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/0ace9ce3f97656d5f62d11093ad7ee81190c3c25.1635535215.git.pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com
kernel/bpf/Kconfig