Before this patch perf panic if kptr_restrict set to 1 and perf is owned
by root with suid set:
$ whoami
wangnan
$ ls -l ./perf
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 19781908 Sep 21 19:29 /home/wangnan/perf
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
1
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid
-1
$ ./perf record -a
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The reason is perf assumes it is allowed to read kptr from /proc/kallsyms
when euid is root, but in fact kernel doesn't allow it reading kptr when
euid and uid are not match with each other:
$ cp /bin/cat .
$ sudo chown root:root ./cat
$ sudo chmod u+s ./cat
$ cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork
0000000000000000 T _do_fork <--- kptr is hidden even euid is root
$ sudo cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork
ffffffff81080230 T _do_fork
See lib/vsprintf.c for kernel side code.
This patch fixes this problem by checking both uid and euid.
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com>
---
Resend with a meanless blank like removed.
---
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 19c9c55..c55e781 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1947,7 +1947,7 @@ static bool symbol__read_kptr_restrict(void)
char line[8];
if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fp) != NULL)
- value = (geteuid() != 0) ?
+ value = ((geteuid() != 0) || (getuid() != 0)) ?
(atoi(line) != 0) :
(atoi(line) == 2);
--
1.8.3.4
