Adding upstream version 6.6.15.upstream/6.6.15

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/ksyms_common.c b/kernel/ksyms_common.c
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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * ksyms_common.c: A split of kernel/kallsyms.c
+ * Contains a few generic function definations independent of config KALLSYMS.
+ */
+#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
+
+static inline int kallsyms_for_perf(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS
+	extern int sysctl_perf_event_paranoid;
+
+	if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid <= 1)
+		return 1;
+#endif
+	return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * We show kallsyms information even to normal users if we've enabled
+ * kernel profiling and are explicitly not paranoid (so kptr_restrict
+ * is clear, and sysctl_perf_event_paranoid isn't set).
+ *
+ * Otherwise, require CAP_SYSLOG (assuming kptr_restrict isn't set to
+ * block even that).
+ */
+bool kallsyms_show_value(const struct cred *cred)
+{
+	switch (kptr_restrict) {
+	case 0:
+		if (kallsyms_for_perf())
+			return true;
+		fallthrough;
+	case 1:
+		if (security_capable(cred, &init_user_ns, CAP_SYSLOG,
+				     CAP_OPT_NOAUDIT) == 0)
+			return true;
+		fallthrough;
+	default:
+		return false;
+	}
+}