From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Jonatan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@linux.intel.com>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 2/4] perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 16:43:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a44361cf-869d-fc0b-bf34-384a01785c87@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <784bbe0d-56c1-bd63-1879-b7db988e40c0@linux.intel.com>
Document and categorize system and performance data into groups that
can be captured by perf_events/Perf and explicitly indicate the group
that can contain process sensitive data.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst | 32 +++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
index bac599e3c55f..8772d44a5912 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst
@@ -11,8 +11,34 @@ impose a considerable risk of leaking sensitive data accessed by monitored
processes. The data leakage is possible both in scenarios of direct usage of
perf_events system call API [2]_ and over data files generated by Perf tool user
mode utility (Perf) [3]_ , [4]_ . The risk depends on the nature of data that
-perf_events performance monitoring units (PMU) [2]_ collect and expose for
-performance analysis. Having that said perf_events/Perf performance monitoring
+perf_events performance monitoring units (PMU) [2]_ and Perf collect and expose
+for performance analysis. Collected system and performance data may be split into
+several categories:
+
+1. System hardware and software configuration data, for example: a CPU model and
+ its cache configuration, an amount of available memory and its topology, used
+ kernel and Perf versions, performance monitoring setup including experiment
+ time, events configuration, Perf command line parameters, etc.
+
+2. User and kernel module paths and their load addresses with sizes, process and
+ thread names with their PIDs and TIDs, timestamps for captured hardware and
+ software events.
+
+3. Content of kernel software counters (e.g., for context switches, page faults,
+ CPU migrations), architectural hardware performance counters (PMC) [8]_ and
+ machine specific registers (MSR) [9]_ that provide execution metrics for
+ various monitored parts of the system (e.g., memory controller (IMC), interconnect
+ (QPI/UPI) or peripheral (PCIe) uncore counters) without direct attribution to any
+ execution context state.
+
+4. Content of architectural execution context registers (e.g., RIP, RSP, RBP on
+ x86_64), process user and kernel space memory addresses and data, content of
+ various architectural MSRs that capture data from this category.
+
+Data that belong to the fourth category can potentially contain sensitive process
+data. If PMUs in some monitoring modes capture values of execution context registers
+or data from process memory then access to such monitoring capabilities requires
+to be ordered and secured properly. So, perf_events/Perf performance monitoring
is the subject for security access control management [5]_ .
perf_events/Perf access control
@@ -134,6 +160,8 @@ Bibliography
.. [5] `<https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/security/credentials.html>`_
.. [6] `<http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/capabilities.7.html>`_
.. [7] `<http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ptrace.2.html>`_
+.. [8] `<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_performance_counter>`_
+.. [9] `<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-specific_register>`_
.. [11] `<http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrlimit.2.html>`_
.. [12] `<http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/limits.conf.5.html>`_
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-11 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-11 13:32 [PATCH v3 0/3] admin-guide: extend perf-security with resource control, data categories and privileged users Alexey Budankov
2019-02-11 13:42 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control Alexey Budankov
2019-02-11 13:43 ` Alexey Budankov [this message]
2019-02-11 13:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users Alexey Budankov
2019-02-11 13:45 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns Alexey Budankov
2019-02-11 14:58 ` Alexey Budankov
2019-02-17 23:14 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] admin-guide: extend perf-security with resource control, data categories and privileged users Jonathan Corbet
2019-02-18 8:56 ` Alexey Budankov
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