On Tue, 28 Jan 2020, Alexey Budankov wrote: > > Open access to 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 principal 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 the monitoring remains open > for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for secure > monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_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..c4208d027794 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 (!perfmon_capable()) > return -EACCES; > > if (count != sizeof(uint32_t)) > Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
