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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: suspicious RCU usage (perf)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:49:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130830154957.GA10875@somewhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130827121629.GE10002@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:16:29PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:03:04PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > Is there some path through sys_perf_open_event that might be
> > > missing a capability check perhaps ?
> > > 
> > 
> > That's a question for Ingo, Peter or Jiri.
> 
> Its not something I've looked at recently, git blames Jiri and fweisbec
> for most of that code.
> 
> Permission checks appear to live in
> kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:perf_trace_event_perm().

Well, it also depends on sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid settings.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-30 15:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-26 14:58 suspicious RCU usage (perf) Dave Jones
2013-08-26 16:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-26 17:30   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-26 17:50     ` Dave Jones
2013-08-26 18:18       ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-26 18:29         ` Dave Jones
2013-08-26 19:03           ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-27 12:16             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 15:49               ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2013-08-30 15:52               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-08-30 15:59                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-08-30 16:06                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-08-26 19:43           ` David Ahern
2013-08-26 19:49             ` Dave Jones
2013-08-27 13:10               ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-27 13:58                 ` David Ahern
2013-08-27 14:13                   ` Dave Jones

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