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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracefs: Only clobber mode/uid/gid on remount if asked
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2022 17:46:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220907174604.06809ff2@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220826174353.2.Iab6e5ea57963d6deca5311b27fb7226790d44406@changeid>

On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 17:44:17 -0700
Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> wrote:

> Users may have explicitly configured their tracefs permissions; we
> shouldn't overwrite those just because a second mount appeared.
> 
> Only clobber if the options were provided at mount time.
> 
> Note: the previous behavior was especially surprising in the presence of
> automounted /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/.
> 
>   # Don't change /sys/kernel/tracing/ permissions on automount.
>   umount /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/

BTW, I noticed that the above doesn't do anything. That is,
you cannot unmount tracefs from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.

 # ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
available_events            buffer_total_size_kb   error_log                 hwlat_detector   options         recursed_functions   set_event_notrace_pid   set_ftrace_pid      stack_trace         trace_clock       trace_stat           uprobe_events
available_filter_functions  current_tracer         eval_map                  instances        osnoise         saved_cmdlines       set_event_pid           set_graph_function  stack_trace_filter  trace_marker      tracing_cpumask      uprobe_profile
available_tracers           dynamic_events         events                    kprobe_events    per_cpu         saved_cmdlines_size  set_ftrace_filter       set_graph_notrace   synthetic_events    trace_marker_raw  tracing_max_latency  user_events_data
buffer_percent              dyn_ftrace_total_info  free_buffer               kprobe_profile   printk_formats  saved_tgids          set_ftrace_notrace      snapshot            timestamp_mode      trace_options     tracing_on           user_events_status
buffer_size_kb              enabled_functions      function_profile_enabled  max_graph_depth  README          set_event            set_ftrace_notrace_pid  stack_max_size      trace               trace_pipe        tracing_thresh

  # umount /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/

  # ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
available_events            buffer_total_size_kb   error_log                 hwlat_detector   options         recursed_functions   set_event_notrace_pid   set_ftrace_pid      stack_trace         trace_clock       trace_stat           uprobe_events
available_filter_functions  current_tracer         eval_map                  instances        osnoise         saved_cmdlines       set_event_pid           set_graph_function  stack_trace_filter  trace_marker      tracing_cpumask      uprobe_profile
available_tracers           dynamic_events         events                    kprobe_events    per_cpu         saved_cmdlines_size  set_ftrace_filter       set_graph_notrace   synthetic_events    trace_marker_raw  tracing_max_latency  user_events_data
buffer_percent              dyn_ftrace_total_info  free_buffer               kprobe_profile   printk_formats  saved_tgids          set_ftrace_notrace      snapshot            timestamp_mode      trace_options     tracing_on           user_events_status
buffer_size_kb              enabled_functions      function_profile_enabled  max_graph_depth  README          set_event            set_ftrace_notrace_pid  stack_max_size      trace               trace_pipe        tracing_thresh


-- Steve



>   stat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/.
> 
>   # Don't change /sys/kernel/tracing/ permissions.
>   mount -t tracefs none /mnt/foo
> 
>   # Change /sys/kernel/tracing/ mode and uid, but not gid.
>   mount -t tracefs -o uid=bar,mode=0750 none /mnt/baz
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> ---
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-27  0:44 [PATCH 1/2] debugfs: Only clobber mode/uid/gid on remount if asked Brian Norris
2022-08-27  0:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] tracefs: " Brian Norris
2022-09-07 11:44   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-07 20:52     ` Brian Norris
2022-09-08  1:25       ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-07 21:46   ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2022-09-07 21:48     ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-07 21:53       ` Brian Norris
2022-09-07 22:45         ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-01 15:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] debugfs: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-01 16:11   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-01 22:32   ` Brian Norris
2022-09-02  5:45     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-09-09  0:16       ` Brian Norris
2022-09-09  0:43         ` Steven Rostedt
2022-09-09  0:57           ` Brian Norris
2022-09-09  1:05             ` Steven Rostedt

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