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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 08389d8882 ("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
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
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# BPF interpreter that, for example, classic socket filters depend on.
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config BPF
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bool
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# Used by archs to tell that they support BPF JIT compiler plus which
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# flavour. Only one of the two can be selected for a specific arch since
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# eBPF JIT supersedes the cBPF JIT.
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# Classic BPF JIT (cBPF)
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config HAVE_CBPF_JIT
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bool
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# Extended BPF JIT (eBPF)
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config HAVE_EBPF_JIT
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bool
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# Used by archs to tell that they want the BPF JIT compiler enabled by
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# default for kernels that were compiled with BPF JIT support.
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config ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT
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bool
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menu "BPF subsystem"
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config BPF_SYSCALL
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bool "Enable bpf() system call"
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select BPF
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select IRQ_WORK
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select TASKS_TRACE_RCU
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select BINARY_PRINTF
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select NET_SOCK_MSG if NET
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default n
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help
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Enable the bpf() system call that allows to manipulate BPF programs
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and maps via file descriptors.
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config BPF_JIT
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bool "Enable BPF Just In Time compiler"
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depends on BPF
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depends on HAVE_CBPF_JIT || HAVE_EBPF_JIT
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depends on MODULES
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help
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BPF programs are normally handled by a BPF interpreter. This option
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allows the kernel to generate native code when a program is loaded
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into the kernel. This will significantly speed-up processing of BPF
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programs.
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Note, an admin should enable this feature changing:
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/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_enable
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/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_harden (optional)
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/proc/sys/net/core/bpf_jit_kallsyms (optional)
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config BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
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bool "Permanently enable BPF JIT and remove BPF interpreter"
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depends on BPF_SYSCALL && HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
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help
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Enables BPF JIT and removes BPF interpreter to avoid speculative
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execution of BPF instructions by the interpreter.
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config BPF_JIT_DEFAULT_ON
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def_bool ARCH_WANT_DEFAULT_BPF_JIT || BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
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depends on HAVE_EBPF_JIT && BPF_JIT
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config BPF_UNPRIV_DEFAULT_OFF
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bool "Disable unprivileged BPF by default"
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default y
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depends on BPF_SYSCALL
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help
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Disables unprivileged BPF by default by setting the corresponding
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/proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_bpf_disabled knob to 2. An admin can
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still reenable it by setting it to 0 later on, or permanently
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disable it by setting it to 1 (from which no other transition to
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0 is possible anymore).
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Unprivileged BPF could be used to exploit certain potential
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speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities on unmitigated
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affected hardware.
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If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer Y.
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source "kernel/bpf/preload/Kconfig"
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config BPF_LSM
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bool "Enable BPF LSM Instrumentation"
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depends on BPF_EVENTS
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depends on BPF_SYSCALL
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depends on SECURITY
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depends on BPF_JIT
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help
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Enables instrumentation of the security hooks with BPF programs for
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implementing dynamic MAC and Audit Policies.
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If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
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endmenu # "BPF subsystem"
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