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Daniel Borkmann f1f7714ea5 bpf: rework prog_digest into prog_tag
Commit 7bd509e311 ("bpf: add prog_digest and expose it via
fdinfo/netlink") was recently discussed, partially due to
admittedly suboptimal name of "prog_digest" in combination
with sha1 hash usage, thus inevitably and rightfully concerns
about its security in terms of collision resistance were
raised with regards to use-cases.

The intended use cases are for debugging resp. introspection
only for providing a stable "tag" over the instruction sequence
that both kernel and user space can calculate independently.
It's not usable at all for making a security relevant decision.
So collisions where two different instruction sequences generate
the same tag can happen, but ideally at a rather low rate. The
"tag" will be dumped in hex and is short enough to introspect
in tracepoints or kallsyms output along with other data such
as stack trace, etc. Thus, this patch performs a rename into
prog_tag and truncates the tag to a short output (64 bits) to
make it obvious it's not collision-free.

Should in future a hash or facility be needed with a security
relevant focus, then we can think about requirements, constraints,
etc that would fit to that situation. For now, rework the exposed
parts for the current use cases as long as nothing has been
released yet. Tested on x86_64 and s390x.

Fixes: 7bd509e311 ("bpf: add prog_digest and expose it via fdinfo/netlink")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-01-16 14:03:31 -05:00
arch Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-01-11 09:28:13 -08:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-01-04 09:03:37 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: testmgr - Use heap buffer for acomp test input 2016-12-27 17:32:11 +08:00
Documentation net: phy: dp83867: allow RGMII_TXID/RGMII_RXID interface types 2017-01-16 13:29:51 -05:00
drivers net: phy: dp83867: allow RGMII_TXID/RGMII_RXID interface types 2017-01-16 13:29:51 -05:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs ocfs2: fix crash caused by stale lvb with fsdlm plugin 2017-01-10 18:31:54 -08:00
include bpf: rework prog_digest into prog_tag 2017-01-16 14:03:31 -05:00
init cgroup: move CONFIG_SOCK_CGROUP_DATA to init/Kconfig 2017-01-11 09:47:10 -05:00
ipc ipc/sem.c: fix incorrect sem_lock pairing 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
kernel bpf: rework prog_digest into prog_tag 2017-01-16 14:03:31 -05:00
lib lib/Kconfig.debug: fix frv build failure 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
mm mm/hugetlb.c: fix reservation race when freeing surplus pages 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
net bpf: rework prog_digest into prog_tag 2017-01-16 14:03:31 -05:00
samples vfio-mdev: fix some error codes in the sample code 2017-01-04 08:32:23 -07:00
scripts gcc-plugins: update gcc-common.h for gcc-7 2017-01-03 12:08:59 -08:00
security Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
sound Revert "ALSA: firewire-lib: change structure member with proper type" 2017-01-05 08:39:47 +01:00
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usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
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