Re: [PATCH] kernel/time: Make /proc/timer_list mode 0400

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:18:32 +0100
> > Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 18:08 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > /proc/timer_list contains kernel addresses, like e.g.:
> > > >  #0: <c000000001404158>, tick_sched_timer, S:01, .tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick, swapper/0
> > > >  ...
> > > > 
> > > > Avoid leaking them to user space to make writing kernel exploits a bit harder.
> > > > 
> > > > (I currently cannot think of a userland tool that uses this, this is
> > > > likely pretty much root-only.)
> > > 
> > > iirc powertop parses this..
> > 
> > I bet it doesn't look at the kernel address (why was that added in the
> > first place, anyway?)
> > 
> > I'd suggest that the risk of breakage would be much less if we left the
> > file permissions alone and arranged for those addresses to be
> > 0000000000000000 for non-root readers.
> 
> You beat me to it. Having the full information is quite helpful at
> times.

We should do something like:

	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
		print_ptr = NULL;

	sprintf(s, "%p", print_ptr);

Thanks,

	Ingo