From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: [PATCH 16/60] doc/admin-guide: update kernel.rst with CAP_PERFMON information Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:52:32 -0300 Message-ID: <20200420115316.18781-17-acme@kernel.org> References: <20200420115316.18781-1-acme@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20200420115316.18781-1-acme@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Cc: Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Clark Williams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Alexey Budankov , Alexei Starovoitov , Andi Kleen , Igor Lubashev , James Morris , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Serge Hallyn , Song Liu , Stephane Eranian , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org From: Alexey Budankov Update the kernel.rst documentation file with the information related to usage of CAP_PERFMON capability to secure performance monitoring and observability operations in system. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Igor Lubashev Cc: James Morris Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Song Liu Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/84c32383-14a2-fa35-16b6-f9e59bd37240@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst | 16 +++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst index 39c95c0e13d3..7e4c28dfc9ca 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/kernel.rst @@ -730,7 +730,13 @@ perf_event_paranoid =================== Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged -users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2. +users (without CAP_PERFMON). The default value is 2. + +For backward compatibility reasons access to system performance +monitoring and observability remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN +privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure system +performance monitoring and observability operations is discouraged +with respect to CAP_PERFMON use cases. === ================================================================== -1 Allow use of (almost) all events by all users. @@ -739,13 +745,13 @@ users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN). The default value is 2. ``CAP_IPC_LOCK``. >=0 Disallow ftrace function tracepoint by users without - ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``. + ``CAP_PERFMON``. - Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``. + Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``. ->=1 Disallow CPU event access by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``. +>=1 Disallow CPU event access by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``. ->=2 Disallow kernel profiling by users without ``CAP_SYS_ADMIN``. +>=2 Disallow kernel profiling by users without ``CAP_PERFMON``. === ================================================================== -- 2.21.1