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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] perf report: Fix owner error when reading perf.data
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:54:23 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151001125423.GS1944@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9B4B7598-A70C-4497-8ADC-204A6DA570CF@gmail.com>

Em Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 09:26:26PM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu:
> > On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > * Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> If perf.data file is owned by some user,
> >> it can't be read even if current user is root.

> > That's intentional: to keep a malicious local user from passing a perf.data to 
> > root who does 'perf report' accidentally or in the wrong directory.

> > root can copy or chown it to himself - or we could add some --really-force flag 
> > for that.

> I got it.
> I didn’t know its intention.

Feel free to transform Ingo's comment in a C source code comment right
besides the code doing that check, this way when someone else thinks
this is wrong, like you did, the comment will clarify things.

- Arnaldo

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-01 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-01  9:03 [PATCH v1] perf report: Fix owner error when reading perf.data Taeung Song
2015-10-01  9:10 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-10-01 12:26   ` Taeung Song
2015-10-01 12:54     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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