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authorAlexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>2020-04-02 11:51:21 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-04-16 12:19:09 -0300
commitcea7d0d4a59b4efd0e1fe067130b4c06ab4d412f (patch)
tree0fa7e703eb6d19af61893d262910af33eca095bc /drivers/perf
parentcf91baf3f7f39a0cd29072e21ed0e4bb1ab3b382 (diff)
downloadlinux-cea7d0d4a59b4efd0e1fe067130b4c06ab4d412f.tar.bz2
drivers/perf: Open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process
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 principle 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> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4ec1d6f7-548c-8d1c-f84a-cebeb9674e4e@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/perf')
-rw-r--r--drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
index b72c04852599..0e0961a2b405 100644
--- a/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/perf/arm_spe_pmu.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static u64 arm_spe_event_to_pmscr(struct perf_event *event)
if (!attr->exclude_kernel)
reg |= BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_E1SPE_SHIFT);
- if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR) && capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PID_IN_CONTEXTIDR) && perfmon_capable())
reg |= BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_CX_SHIFT);
return reg;
@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ static int arm_spe_pmu_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
reg = arm_spe_event_to_pmscr(event);
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
+ if (!perfmon_capable() &&
(reg & (BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_PA_SHIFT) |
BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_CX_SHIFT) |
BIT(SYS_PMSCR_EL1_PCT_SHIFT))))