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[v6,10/10] drivers/oprofile: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process

Message ID eff5e211-7114-f854-f53f-08491f9dcc26@linux.intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
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Series Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability | expand

Commit Message

Alexey Budankov Jan. 28, 2020, 6:14 a.m. UTC
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 <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
---
 drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

James Morris Jan. 28, 2020, 9:18 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Alexey Budankov wrote:

> 
> 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 <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>

> 
> 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))
>
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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))