From patchwork Mon Jan 20 11:33:42 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Alexey Budankov X-Patchwork-Id: 11341873 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 11153921 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:33:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD2F20882 for ; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 11:33:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726867AbgATLdx (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:33:53 -0500 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:50762 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726589AbgATLdw (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jan 2020 06:33:52 -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 fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 20 Jan 2020 03:33:52 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.70,341,1574150400"; d="scan'208";a="374296392" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by orsmga004.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 20 Jan 2020 03:33:52 -0800 Received: from [10.125.252.193] (abudanko-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com [10.125.252.193]) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E511D5803C5; Mon, 20 Jan 2020 03:33:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: [PATCH v5 10/10] drivers/oprofile: open access for CAP_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" , "benh@kernel.crashing.org" , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , "james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" , Serge Hallyn , James Morris , Will Deacon , Mark Rutland , Robert Richter , Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Jiri Olsa , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , Igor Lubashev , Alexander Shishkin , Namhyung Kim , Song Liu , Lionel Landwerlin , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, "linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org" , oprofile-list@lists.sf.net References: <0548c832-7f4b-dc4c-8883-3f2b6d351a08@linux.intel.com> Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: <196ea578-5079-a27f-07ca-23df0e38485c@linux.intel.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 14:33:42 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0548c832-7f4b-dc4c-8883-3f2b6d351a08@linux.intel.com> Content-Language: en-US Sender: owner-linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: Open access to monitoring for CAP_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_PERFMON capability. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials and makes the operations more secure. 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))