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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 16:32:04 +0000 (18:32 +0200)
commit8e8bf7bc6aa6f583336c2fda280b6cea0aed5612
tree14f5ea238d24ee77a2627773fce2f80bd5871184
parent181aa46e2a2da0797ce514920bb18df555efa5f2
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