From patchwork Wed Dec 18 09:29:42 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alexey Budankov X-Patchwork-Id: 11300121 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org (pdx-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.123]) by pdx-korg-patchwork-2.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7FD1593 for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6D91227BF for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:29:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726723AbfLRJ3x (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2019 04:29:53 -0500 Received: from mga18.intel.com ([134.134.136.126]:61683 "EHLO mga18.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725799AbfLRJ3w (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2019 04:29:52 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga004.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.38]) by orsmga106.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Dec 2019 01:29:52 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.69,329,1571727600"; d="scan'208";a="365693253" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2019 01:29:52 -0800 Received: from [10.125.252.219] (abudanko-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com [10.125.252.219]) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDA558095E; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:29:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PATCH v4 7/9] parisc/perf: open access for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged process From: Alexey Budankov To: Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , "jani.nikula@linux.intel.com" , "joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com" , "rodrigo.vivi@intel.com" , Alexei Starovoitov , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , "james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" , Serge Hallyn , James Morris , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Casey Schaufler , Robert Richter Cc: Jiri Olsa , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , Igor Lubashev , Alexander Shishkin , Namhyung Kim , Kees Cook , Jann Horn , Thomas Gleixner , Tvrtko Ursulin , Lionel Landwerlin , Song Liu , linux-kernel , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "bpf@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, oprofile-list@lists.sf.net References: Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: <806e4881-5c22-5914-a656-5eeb65130dbe@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:29:42 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-parisc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Open access to monitoring for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged processes. For backward compatibility reasons access to the monitoring remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Acked-by: Helge Deller --- arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c index 676683641d00..c4208d027794 100644 --- a/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c +++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static ssize_t perf_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, else return -EFAULT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; if (count != sizeof(uint32_t))