From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Budankov Subject: [PATCH v5 10/10] drivers/oprofile: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:33:42 +0300 Message-ID: <196ea578-5079-a27f-07ca-23df0e38485c@linux.intel.com> References: <0548c832-7f4b-dc4c-8883-3f2b6d351a08@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <0548c832-7f4b-dc4c-8883-3f2b6d351a08@linux.intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-parisc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , "jani.nikula@linux.intel.com" , "joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com" , "rodrigo.vivi@intel.com" , "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , "james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" , Serge Hallyn , James Morris , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Robert Richter , Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , Igor Lubashev , Alexander Shishkin , Namhyung Kim , Song Liu , Lionel Landwerlin , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org 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 --- drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c index 12ea4a4ad607..6c9edc8bbc95 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int event_buffer_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { int err = -EPERM; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EPERM; if (test_and_set_bit_lock(0, &buffer_opened)) -- 2.20.1