From a4e95fc2cbb31d70a65beffeaf8773f881328c34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:20:12 +0200 Subject: perf_counter: Require CAP_SYS_ADMIN for raw tracepoint data Raw tracepoint data contains various kernel internals and data from other users, so restrict this to CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1249896452.17467.75.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_counter.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index 5229d1666fa..b0b20a07f39 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c @@ -3787,6 +3787,14 @@ static void tp_perf_counter_destroy(struct perf_counter *counter) static const struct pmu *tp_perf_counter_init(struct perf_counter *counter) { + /* + * Raw tracepoint data is a severe data leak, only allow root to + * have these. + */ + if ((counter->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) && + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); + if (ftrace_profile_enable(counter->attr.config)) return NULL; -- cgit v1.2.3