Commit-ID: 32e6e967fb36bf77ed99221ae3ce1909f045d8f9 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/32e6e967fb36bf77ed99221ae3ce1909f045d8f9 Author: Song Liu <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:02:37 +0000 Committer: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> CommitDate: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:55:50 +0200
perf/core: Need CAP_SYS_ADMIN to create k/uprobe with perf_event_open() Non-root user cannot create kprobe or uprobe through the text-based interface (kprobe_events, uprobe_events),so they should not be able to create probes via perf_event_open() either. Reported-by: Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: 33ea4b24277b ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_uprobe' PMU") Fixes: e12f03d7031a ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d7af82827373..2d5fe26551f8 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -8400,6 +8400,10 @@ static int perf_kprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != perf_kprobe.type) return -ENOENT; + + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EACCES; + /* * no branch sampling for probe events */ @@ -8437,6 +8441,10 @@ static int perf_uprobe_event_init(struct perf_event *event) if (event->attr.type != perf_uprobe.type) return -ENOENT; + + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EACCES; + /* * no branch sampling for probe events */
