From 031258da05956646c5606023ab0abe10a7e68ea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Budankov Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 11:48:54 +0300 Subject: trace/bpf_trace: Open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process Open access to bpf_trace 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 bpf_trace monitoring remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure bpf_trace monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Song Liu Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Igor Lubashev Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Stephane Eranian Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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/c0a0ae47-8b6e-ff3e-416b-3cd1faaf71c0@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/trace') diff --git a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c index ca1796747a77..d7d88007dc6d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c @@ -1468,7 +1468,7 @@ int perf_event_query_prog_array(struct perf_event *event, void __user *info) u32 *ids, prog_cnt, ids_len; int ret; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!perfmon_capable()) return -EPERM; if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT) return -EINVAL; -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b