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From: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 01/10] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 16:39:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d6f4210-423f-e454-3910-9f8e17dff1aa@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zgizkyk.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>


On 07.02.2020 14:38, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com> writes:
>> On 22.01.2020 17:25, Alexey Budankov wrote:
>>> On 22.01.2020 17:07, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>>>> It keeps the implementation simple and readable. The implementation is more
>>>>> performant in the sense of calling the API - one capable() call for CAP_PERFMON
>>>>> privileged process.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it bloats audit log for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged and unprivileged processes,
>>>>> but this bloating also advertises and leverages using more secure CAP_PERFMON
>>>>> based approach to use perf_event_open system call.
>>>>
>>>> I can live with that.  We just need to document that when you see
>>>> both a CAP_PERFMON and a CAP_SYS_ADMIN audit message for a process,
>>>> try only allowing CAP_PERFMON first and see if that resolves the
>>>> issue.  We have a similar issue with CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH versus
>>>> CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE.
>>>
>>> perf security [1] document can be updated, at least, to align and document 
>>> this audit logging specifics.
>>
>> And I plan to update the document right after this patch set is accepted.
>> Feel free to let me know of the places in the kernel docs that also
>> require update w.r.t CAP_PERFMON extension.
> 
> The documentation update wants be part of the patch set and not planned
> to be done _after_ the patch set is merged.

Well, accepted. It is going to make patches #11 and beyond.

Thanks,
Alexey

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>         tglx
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-20 11:18 [PATCH v5 0/10] Introduce CAP_PERFMON to secure system performance monitoring and observability Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:23 ` [PATCH v5 01/10] capabilities: introduce CAP_PERFMON to kernel and user space Alexey Budankov
2020-01-21 14:43   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-21 17:30     ` Alexey Budankov
2020-01-21 17:55       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-01-21 18:27         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-01-22 10:45           ` Alexey Budankov
2020-01-22 14:07             ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-22 14:25               ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-06 18:03                 ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-07 11:38                   ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-02-07 13:39                     ` Alexey Budankov [this message]
2020-02-20 13:05                       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-12  8:53               ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-12 13:32                 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-12 13:53                   ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-12 15:21                     ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-12 15:45                       ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-12 16:56                         ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-12 17:09                           ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-13  9:05                             ` Alexey Budankov
2020-02-12 16:16                       ` Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:24 ` [PATCH v5 02/10] perf/core: open access to the core for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:26 ` [PATCH v5 03/10] perf/core: open access to anon probes " Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:27 ` [PATCH v5 04/10] perf tool: extend Perf tool with CAP_PERFMON capability support Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:28 ` [PATCH v5 05/10] drm/i915/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:29 ` [PATCH v5 06/10] trace/bpf_trace: " Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:30 ` [PATCH v5 07/10] powerpc/perf: " Alexey Budankov
2020-01-22 11:02   ` Anju T Sudhakar
2020-01-20 11:31 ` [PATCH v5 08/10] parisc/perf: " Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:32 ` [PATCH v5 09/10] drivers/perf: " Alexey Budankov
2020-01-20 11:33 ` [PATCH v5 10/10] drivers/oprofile: " Alexey Budankov

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