Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] perf: Use CAP_SYSLOG with kptr_restrict checks

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>
To: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] perf: Use CAP_SYSLOG with kptr_restrict checks
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 15:52:13 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190814185213.GN9280@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190814184814.GM9280@kernel.org>

Em Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 03:48:14PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> Em Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:04:33PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier escreveu:
> > # echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
> > # ./tools/perf/perf record -e instructions:k uname
> > perf: Segmentation fault
> > Obtained 10 stack frames.
> > ./tools/perf/perf(sighandler_dump_stack+0x44) [0x55af9e5da5d4]
> > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20) [0x7fd31efb6f20]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(perf_event__synthesize_kernel_mmap+0xa7) [0x55af9e590337]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(+0x1cf5be) [0x55af9e50c5be]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(cmd_record+0x1022) [0x55af9e50dff2]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(+0x23f98d) [0x55af9e57c98d]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(+0x23fc9e) [0x55af9e57cc9e]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(main+0x369) [0x55af9e4f6bc9]
> > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7) [0x7fd31ef99b97]
> > ./tools/perf/perf(_start+0x2a) [0x55af9e4f704a]
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> > I can reproduce this on both x86 and ARM64.
> 
> I don't see this with these two csets removed:
> 
> 7ff5b5911144 perf symbols: Use CAP_SYSLOG with kptr_restrict checks
> d7604b66102e perf tools: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN with perf_event_paranoid checks
> 
> Which were the ones I guessed were related to the problem you reported,
> so they are out of my ongoing perf/core pull request to Ingo/Thomas, now
> trying with these applied and your instructions...

Can't repro:

[root@quaco ~]# cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
0
[root@quaco ~]# perf record -e instructions:k uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
[root@quaco ~]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
[root@quaco ~]# perf record -e instructions:k uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
[root@quaco ~]# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
[root@quaco ~]# perf record -e instructions:k uname
Linux
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.024 MB perf.data (1 samples) ]
[root@quaco ~]#

[acme@quaco perf]$ git log --oneline --author Lubashev tools/
7ff5b5911144 (HEAD -> perf/cap, acme.korg/tmp.perf/cap, acme.korg/perf/cap) perf symbols: Use CAP_SYSLOG with kptr_restrict checks
d7604b66102e perf tools: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN with perf_event_paranoid checks
c766f3df635d perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0
c22e150e3afa perf tools: Add helpers to use capabilities if present
74d5f3d06f70 tools build: Add capability-related feature detection
perf version 5.3.rc4.g7ff5b5911144
[acme@quaco perf]$

- Arnaldo