From 59365d136d205cc20fe666ca7f89b1c5001b0d5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Meissner Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:46:03 +0100 Subject: kernel: make /proc/kallsyms mode 400 to reduce ease of attacking 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 Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Eugene Teo Reviewed-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/kallsyms.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c') diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c index 6f6d091b5757..a8db2570f99a 100644 --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kallsyms_operations = { static int __init kallsyms_init(void) { - proc_create("kallsyms", 0444, NULL, &kallsyms_operations); + proc_create("kallsyms", 0400, NULL, &kallsyms_operations); return 0; } device_initcall(kallsyms_init); -- cgit v1.2.3