Re: Stable backport request - perf/core: Fix unconditional security_locked_down() call

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On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 1:07 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:58:24PM +0200, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > please consider backporting commit 08ef1af4de5f ("perf/core: Fix
> > unconditional security_locked_down() call") to stable kernels, as
> > without it SELinux requires an extraneous permission for
> > perf_event_open(2) calls with PERF_SAMPLE_REGS_INTR unset.
> >
> > The range of target kernel versions is implied by the Fixes: tag.
>
> Now queued up, thanks.
>
> greg k-h
>

Wow, that was fast :) Thanks, Greg!

--
Ondrej Mosnacek
Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.




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