Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpf, capabilities: introduce CAP_BPF

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 12:30:41PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > kprobes can be created in the tracefs filesystem (which is separate from
> > debugfs, tracefs just gets automatically mounted
> > in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing when debugfs is mounted) from the
> > kprobe_events file. /sys/kernel/tracing is just the tracefs
> > directory without debugfs, and was created specifically to allow
> > tracing to be access without opening up the can of worms in debugfs.
> 
> I like the CAP_TRACING for tracefs. Can we make the tracefs itself
> check the CAP_TRACING and call file_ops? or each tracefs file-ops
> handlers must check it?

Thanks for the feedback.
I'll hack a prototype of CAP_TRACING for perf bits that I understand
and you folks will be able to use it in ftrace when initial support lands.
imo the question above is an implementation detail that you can resolve later.
I see it as a followup to initial CAP_TRACING drop.




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