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 <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>

diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c
index 6f6d091b57573bf37fc98fdcb2df91c08787543d..a8db2570f99a9cb094daa2e773fc74e6e23d25bb 100644 (file)
--- 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);