This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
perf-ftrace-fix-paranoid-level-for-enabling-function-tracer.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 12ae030d54ef250706da5642fc7697cc60ad0df7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 12:51:11 -0500
Subject: perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 12ae030d54ef250706da5642fc7697cc60ad0df7 upstream.
The current default perf paranoid level is "1" which has
"perf_paranoid_kernel()" return false, and giving any operations that
use it, access to normal users. Unfortunately, this includes function
tracing and normal users should not be allowed to enable function
tracing by default.
The proper level is defined at "-1" (full perf access), which
"perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw()" will only give access to. Use that
check instead for enabling function tracing.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
CVE: CVE-2013-2930
Fixes: ced39002f5ea ("ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ static int perf_trace_event_perm(struct
{
/* The ftrace function trace is allowed only for root. */
if (ftrace_event_is_function(tp_event) &&
- perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
/* No tracing, just counting, so no obvious leak */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/perf-ftrace-fix-paranoid-level-for-enabling-function-tracer.patch
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