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perf/core: Open access to the core for CAP_PERFMON privileged process 

Open access to monitoring of kernel code, CPUs, tracepoints and
namespaces data for a 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 the access to perf_events subsystem
remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN
usage for secure perf_events 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>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
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-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/471acaef-bb8a-5ce2-923f-90606b78eef9@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Alexey Budankov 2020-04-02 11:46:24 +03:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 9807372822
commit 18aa185662
2 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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include/linux/perf_event.h
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@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ static inline int perf_is_paranoid(void)
static inline int perf_allow_kernel(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > 1 && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > 1 && !perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
return security_perf_event_open(attr, PERF_SECURITY_KERNEL);
@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ static inline int perf_allow_kernel(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
static inline int perf_allow_cpu(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > 0 && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > 0 && !perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
return security_perf_event_open(attr, PERF_SECURITY_CPU);
@ -1321,7 +1321,7 @@ static inline int perf_allow_cpu(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
static inline int perf_allow_tracepoint(struct perf_event_attr *attr)
{
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > -1 && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
if (sysctl_perf_event_paranoid > -1 && !perfmon_capable())
return -EPERM;
return security_perf_event_open(attr, PERF_SECURITY_TRACEPOINT);

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kernel/events/core.c
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@ -11504,7 +11504,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
}
if (attr.namespaces) {
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
if (!perfmon_capable())
return -EACCES;
}