From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD3C7C2BA83 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 67D2220718 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:12:57 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 67D2220718 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48LcDQ2QQqzDqLG for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:12:54 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=none (no SPF record) smtp.mailfrom=linux.intel.com (client-ip=134.134.136.24; helo=mga09.intel.com; envelope-from=alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48Lc6V45JYzDqdn for ; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 19:07:46 +1100 (AEDT) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 17 Feb 2020 00:07:44 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,451,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="314705824" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 17 Feb 2020 00:07:44 -0800 Received: from [10.125.252.180] (abudanko-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com [10.125.252.180]) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D7258052E; Mon, 17 Feb 2020 00:07:37 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PATCH v7 03/12] perf/core: open access to probes for CAP_PERFMON privileged process From: Alexey Budankov To: James Morris , Serge Hallyn , Stephen Smalley , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , "joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com" , Alexei Starovoitov , Will Deacon , Paul Mackerras , Helge Deller , Thomas Gleixner References: Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: <3364fa26-b5d1-1808-aaee-c057f26e0eb4@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 11:07:37 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , Igor Lubashev , linux-kernel , Stephane Eranian , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, Jiri Olsa , linux-arm-kernel Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" Open access to monitoring via kprobes and uprobes and eBPF tracing for CAP_PERFMON privileged process. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials and makes operation more secure. perf kprobes and uprobes are used by ftrace and eBPF. perf probe uses ftrace to define new kprobe events, and those events are treated as tracepoint events. eBPF defines new probes via perf_event_open interface and then the probes are used in eBPF tracing. CAP_PERFMON implements the principal of least privilege for performance monitoring and observability operations (POSIX IEEE 1003.1e 2.2.2.39 principle of least privilege: A security design principle that states that a process or program be granted only those privileges (e.g., capabilities) necessary to accomplish its legitimate function, and only for the time that such privileges are actually required) For backward compatibility reasons access to perf_events subsystem remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure perf_events monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 46464367c47a..4564caa2c527 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -9107,7 +9107,7 @@ static int perf_kprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != perf_kprobe.type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* @@ -9167,7 +9167,7 @@ static int perf_uprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != perf_uprobe.type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* -- 2.20.1