From patchwork Wed Feb 5 17:37:16 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alexey Budankov X-Patchwork-Id: 11366815 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 20AD492A for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 17:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (gabe.freedesktop.org [131.252.210.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0798422527 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 17:37:27 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0798422527 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from gabe.freedesktop.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB356F8F7; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 17:37:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Original-To: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Delivered-To: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Received: from mga11.intel.com (mga11.intel.com [192.55.52.93]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8729E6F8F7 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 17:37:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga007.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.52]) by fmsmga102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 05 Feb 2020 09:37:25 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,406,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="225024006" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by fmsmga007.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 05 Feb 2020 09:37:24 -0800 Received: from [10.252.5.149] (abudanko-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com [10.252.5.149]) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77F3C5802BC; Wed, 5 Feb 2020 09:37:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alexey Budankov To: James Morris , Serge Hallyn , Stephen Smalley , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , "joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com" , Alexei Starovoitov , Will Deacon , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman References: <576a6141-36d4-14c0-b395-8d195892b916@linux.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 20:37:16 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <576a6141-36d4-14c0-b395-8d195892b916@linux.intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Subject: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH v6 10/10] drivers/oprofile: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process X-BeenThere: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Intel graphics driver community testing & development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Andi Kleen , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , Igor Lubashev , linux-kernel , Stephane Eranian , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , oprofile-list@lists.sf.net, Thomas Gleixner , Jiri Olsa , linux-arm-kernel Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" Open access to monitoring for CAP_PERFMON privileged process. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials and makes operation more secure. CAP_PERFMON implements the principal of least privilege for performance monitoring and observability operations (POSIX IEEE 1003.1e 2.2.2.39 principle of least privilege: A security design principle that states that a process or program be granted only those privileges (e.g., capabilities) necessary to accomplish its legitimate function, and only for the time that such privileges are actually required) 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_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))