From patchwork Wed Dec 18 09:31:08 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alexey Budankov X-Patchwork-Id: 11300135 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 3C991109A for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23993227BF for ; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726824AbfLRJbT (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2019 04:31:19 -0500 Received: from mga06.intel.com ([134.134.136.31]:41254 "EHLO mga06.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725785AbfLRJbS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Dec 2019 04:31:18 -0500 X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from orsmga003.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.27]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Dec 2019 01:31:17 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.69,329,1571727600"; d="scan'208";a="218091630" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by orsmga003.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Dec 2019 01:31:17 -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 33127580458; Wed, 18 Dec 2019 01:31:09 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PATCH v4 9/9] drivers/oprofile: 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: <70eb48f8-34ae-8aa3-ca64-d433b75ea2ae@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 12:31:08 +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: selinux-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: selinux@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 --- drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c index 12ea4a4ad607..6c9edc8bbc95 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static int event_buffer_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) { int err = -EPERM; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EPERM; if (test_and_set_bit_lock(0, &buffer_opened))