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perf: Revert to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 2 Jul 2025 16:21:44 +0000 (18:21 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:35:08 +0000 (18:35 +0200)
commit183bdb89af1b5193b1d1d9316986053b15ca6fa4
tree9a8bc7578fd3eff2a95cc0cac6946de6c6297655
parent71eb118baf6edeee2595a2f05a8ce2f472535714
perf: Revert to requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes

[ Upstream commit ba677dbe77af5ffe6204e0f3f547f3ba059c6302 ]

Jann reports that uprobes can be used destructively when used in the
middle of an instruction. The kernel only verifies there is a valid
instruction at the requested offset, but due to variable instruction
length cannot determine if this is an instruction as seen by the
intended execution stream.

Additionally, Mark Rutland notes that on architectures that mix data
in the text segment (like arm64), a similar things can be done if the
data word is 'mistaken' for an instruction.

As such, require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for uprobes.

Fixes: c9e0924e5c2b ("perf/core: open access to probes for CAP_PERFMON privileged process")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez1n4520sq0XrWYDHKiKxE_+WCfAK+qt9qkY4ZiBGmL-5g@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c