linux-stable/kernel/events
Alexey Budankov 45fd22da97 perf/core: Take over CAP_SYS_PTRACE creds to CAP_PERFMON capability
Open access to per-process monitoring for CAP_PERFMON only
privileged processes [1]. Extend ptrace_may_access() check
in perf_events subsystem with perfmon_capable() to simplify
user experience and make monitoring more secure by reducing
attack surface.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/7776fa40-6c65-2aa6-1322-eb3a01201000@linux.intel.com/

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6e8392ff-4732-0012-2949-e1587709f0f6@linux.intel.com
2020-08-06 15:03:20 +02:00
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callchain.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next 2020-06-03 16:27:18 -07:00
core.c perf/core: Take over CAP_SYS_PTRACE creds to CAP_PERFMON capability 2020-08-06 15:03:20 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c powerpc/watchpoint: Don't allow concurrent perf and ptrace events 2020-05-19 00:14:45 +10:00
internal.h perf/core: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-05-19 20:34:16 +02:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c perf: Make struct ring_buffer less ambiguous 2020-01-13 13:19:38 -05:00
uprobes.c Remove uninitialized_var() macro for v5.9-rc1 2020-08-04 13:49:43 -07:00