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Marcus Meissner authored
Making /proc/kallsyms readable only for root by default makes it slightly harder for attackers to write generic kernel exploits by removing one source of knowledge where things are in the kernel. This is the second submit, discussion happened on this on first submit and mostly concerned that this is just one hole of the sieve ... but one of the bigger ones. Changing the permissions of at least System.map and vmlinux is also required to fix the same set, but a packaging issue. Target of this starter patch and follow ups is removing any kind of kernel space address information leak from the kernel. [ Side note: the default of root-only reading is the "safe" value, and it's easy enough to then override at any time after boot. The /proc filesystem allows root to change the permissions with a regular chmod, so you can "revert" this at run-time by simply doing chmod og+r /proc/kallsyms as root if you really want regular users to see the kernel symbols. It does help some tools like "perf" figure them out without any setup, so it may well make sense in some situations. - Linus ] Signed-off-by:
Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> Acked-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by:
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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