On 12/13/2018 01:19 PM, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> Add a set of probes to dump the eBPF-related parameters available from
> /proc/: availability of bpf() syscall for unprivileged users,
> JIT compiler status and hardening status, kallsyms exports status.
> 
> Sample output:
> 
>     # bpftool feature probe kernel
>     Scanning system configuration...
>     bpf() syscall for unprivileged users is enabled
>     JIT compiler is disabled
>     JIT compiler hardening is disabled
>     JIT compiler kallsyms exports are disabled
>     ...
> 
>     # bpftool --json --pretty feature probe kernel
>     {
>         "system_config": {
>             "unprivileged_bpf_disabled": 0,
>             "bpf_jit_enable": 0,
>             "bpf_jit_harden": 0,
>             "bpf_jit_kallsyms": 0
>         },
>         ...
>     }
> 
>     # bpftool feature probe kernel macros prefix BPFTOOL_
>     #define UNPRIVILEGED_BPF_DISABLED UNPRIVILEGED_BPF_DISABLED_OFF
>     #define  UNPRIVILEGED_BPF_DISABLED_OFF 0
>     #define  UNPRIVILEGED_BPF_DISABLED_ON 1
>     #define  UNPRIVILEGED_BPF_DISABLED_UNKNOWN -1
>     #define JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE_OFF
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE_OFF 0
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE_ON 1
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE_ON_WITH_DEBUG 2
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_ENABLE_UNKNOWN -1
>     #define JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN_OFF
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN_OFF 0
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN_FOR_UNPRIVILEGED 1
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN_FOR_ALL_USERS 2
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_HARDEN_UNKNOWN -1
>     #define JIT_COMPILER_KALLSYMS JIT_COMPILER_KALLSYMS_OFF
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_KALLSYMS_OFF 0
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_KALLSYMS_FOR_ROOT 1
>     #define  JIT_COMPILER_KALLSYMS_UNKNOWN -1
>     ...

Hm, given these knobs may change at any point in time, what would
be a use case in an application for these if they cannot be relied
upon? (At least the jit_enable and jit_harden are transparent to
the user.)

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