From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-8.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 502FDC2BA13 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2020 08:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31D5C208E4 for ; Thu, 2 Apr 2020 08:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2387763AbgDBItx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2020 04:49:53 -0400 Received: from mga05.intel.com ([192.55.52.43]:46966 "EHLO mga05.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728612AbgDBItx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2020 04:49:53 -0400 IronPort-SDR: lg1F17We97+bBt0s3cRjh4HZ0Vsiv20BbQ1XduZG2jIB+JN2MM+5F7fJXhN9YlW/fR+QZEq8NG okNSG03i1HFA== X-Amp-Result: SKIPPED(no attachment in message) X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by fmsmga105.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Apr 2020 01:49:42 -0700 IronPort-SDR: x2I/w4oYJVQyDLuhYVX5JgKoqTCgS056OzKSGU7ZXHmII/YThuUwHJ1y0qnR3q3vDUOkjNmeW4 kE1KJg9gKaxw== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.72,335,1580803200"; d="scan'208";a="284705996" Received: from linux.intel.com ([10.54.29.200]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Apr 2020 01:49:42 -0700 Received: from [10.249.226.252] (abudanko-mobl.ccr.corp.intel.com [10.249.226.252]) by linux.intel.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BB13580544; Thu, 2 Apr 2020 01:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [PATCH v8 07/12] powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process From: Alexey Budankov To: Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Alexei Starovoitov , Ingo Molnar , James Morris , Namhyung Kim Cc: Serge Hallyn , Jiri Olsa , Song Liu , Andi Kleen , Stephane Eranian , Igor Lubashev , Thomas Gleixner , linux-kernel , "linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org" , "selinux@vger.kernel.org" , "intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org References: Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 11:49:36 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org 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 Acked-by: Anju T Sudhakar Acked-by: James Morris Reviewed-by: James Morris --- arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c index cb50a9e1fd2d..e837717492e4 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ static int thread_imc_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* Sampling not supported */ @@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ static int trace_imc_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) return -ENOENT; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EACCES; /* Return if this is a couting event */ -- 2.24.1