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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] perf fix
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:11:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627131134.GA9273@gmail.com> (raw)

Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

   HEAD: 2976b10f05bd7f6dab9f9e7524451ddfed656a89 perf: Disable monitoring on setuid processes for regular users

One more fix for a recently discovered bug.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Stephane Eranian (1):
      perf: Disable monitoring on setuid processes for regular users


 fs/exec.c | 16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 6430195..ffd7a81 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1135,13 +1135,6 @@ void setup_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 			set_dumpable(current->mm, suid_dumpable);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * Flush performance counters when crossing a
-	 * security domain:
-	 */
-	if (!get_dumpable(current->mm))
-		perf_event_exit_task(current);
-
 	/* An exec changes our domain. We are no longer part of the thread
 	   group */
 
@@ -1205,6 +1198,15 @@ void install_exec_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 
 	commit_creds(bprm->cred);
 	bprm->cred = NULL;
+
+	/*
+	 * Disable monitoring for regular users
+	 * when executing setuid binaries. Must
+	 * wait until new credentials are committed
+	 * by commit_creds() above
+	 */
+	if (get_dumpable(current->mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER)
+		perf_event_exit_task(current);
 	/*
 	 * cred_guard_mutex must be held at least to this point to prevent
 	 * ptrace_attach() from altering our determination of the task's

             reply	other threads:[~2013-06-27 13:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-27 13:11 Ingo Molnar [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-04-07  7:55 [GIT PULL] perf fix Ingo Molnar
2024-04-07 16:44 ` pr-tracker-bot
2021-06-24  7:01 Ingo Molnar
2021-06-24 16:34 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-10-11  8:00 Ingo Molnar
2020-10-11 18:23 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-06-28 18:33 Ingo Molnar
2020-06-28 22:05 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-09-12  8:39 Ingo Molnar
2019-09-12 10:15 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-04-27 14:38 Ingo Molnar
2019-04-27 18:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-01-17 15:27 Ingo Molnar
2017-10-27 19:14 Ingo Molnar
2017-08-26  7:12 Ingo Molnar
2016-07-13 12:49 Ingo Molnar
2016-05-10 11:43 Ingo Molnar
2016-04-23 11:24 Ingo Molnar
2015-03-28 10:24 Ingo Molnar
2013-12-17 13:35 Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 18:03 [GIT PULL] perf fixes Ingo Molnar
2013-09-29 11:47 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-09-29 14:26   ` [GIT PULL] perf fix Ingo Molnar
2013-09-03 13:37 Ingo Molnar
2013-04-27  7:50 Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 18:50 Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 18:56 ` Josh Boyer
2012-05-23 18:57   ` Josh Boyer
2012-05-23 20:04   ` Ingo Molnar
2012-05-23 20:10     ` Josh Boyer
2012-05-23 20:20       ` Ingo Molnar
2012-03-03  7:50 Ingo Molnar
2011-12-17 20:53 Ingo Molnar
2011-10-01  7:52 Ingo Molnar
2011-07-23  8:57 Ingo Molnar
2010-05-15  6:00 Ingo Molnar
2010-05-04 17:52 Ingo Molnar
2010-04-20  7:32 Ingo Molnar
2010-04-08 13:52 [PATCH] perf: Fix unsafe frame rewinding with hot regs fetching Eric Dumazet
2010-04-08 17:31 ` [GIT PULL] perf fix Frederic Weisbecker
2010-04-13 22:51   ` Ingo Molnar

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