Re: [PATCH v5 07/10] powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process
Anju T Sudhakar <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:32:00 +0530
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.oprofile,gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel,gmane.linux.ports.parisc,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user,gmane.linux.kernel.lsm,gmane.linux.ports.ppc64.devel |
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On 1/20/20 5:00 PM, Alexey Budankov wrote: > 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]> > --- Acked-by: Anju T Sudhakar<[email protected]>