Bug 12433 - disable CONFIG_UPROBES
Summary: disable CONFIG_UPROBES
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: IPFire
Classification: Unclassified
Component: --- (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: unspecified Unspecified
: - Unknown - Security
Assignee: Peter Müller
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Blocks: KERNSEC
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Reported: 2020-06-09 18:49 UTC by Peter Müller
Modified: 2022-10-20 13:23 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Müller 2020-06-09 18:49:09 UTC
> Uprobes is the user-space counterpart to kprobes: they enable instrumentation
> applications (such as 'perf probe') to establish unintrusive probes in
> user-space binaries and libraries, by executing handler functions when the
> probes are hit by user-space applications.
>
> ( These probes come in the form of single-byte breakpoints, managed by the
> kernel and kept transparent to the probed application. )

IMHO this can be safely disabled, as there is little if any need to debug userspace programs _that_ deeply on an IPFire machine.
Comment 1 Peter Müller 2020-06-09 18:52:14 UTC
https://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/3187/