[PATCH v2 7/7] parisc/perf: open access for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged process

From: Alexey Budankov
Date: Mon Dec 16 2019 - 02:19:59 EST



Open access to monitoring for CAP_SYS_PERFMON privileged processes.
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_SYS_PERFMON capability.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c b/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c
index 676683641d00..58e7d1444e4f 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/perf.c
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ static ssize_t perf_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
else
return -EFAULT;

- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!(capable(CAP_SYS_PERFMON) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)))
return -EACCES;

if (count != sizeof(uint32_t))
--
2.20.1