[PATCH v5 07/10] powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process
Alexey Budankov <[email protected]> Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:30:51 +0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.parisc,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.lsm,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel,gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user,gmane.linux.oprofile |
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| Organization | Intel Corp. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Open access to monitoring for CAP_PERFMON privileged processes. For backward compatibility reasons access to the monitoring remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials and makes the operations more secure. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]> --- arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c index cb50a9e1fd2d..e837717492e4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static int thread_imc_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* Sampling not supported */ @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ static int trace_imc_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* Return if this is a couting event */ -- 2.20.1