[PATCH v2] perf: allow non-privileged uprobe for user processes

[Song Liu]

Currently, non-privileged user could only use uprobe with

    kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1

However, setting perf_event_paranoid to -1 leaks other users' processes to
non-privileged uprobes.

To introduce proper permission control of uprobes, we are building the
following system:
  A daemon with CAP_SYS_ADMIN is in charge to create uprobes via tracefs;
  Users asks the daemon to create uprobes;
  Then user can attach uprobe only to processes owned by the user.

This patch allows non-privileged user to attach uprobe to processes owned
by the user.

The following example shows how to use uprobe with non-privileged user.
This is based on Brendan's blog post [1]

1. Create uprobe with root:
  sudo perf probe -x 'readline%return +0($retval):string'

2. Then non-root user can use the uprobe as:
  perf record -vvv -e probe_bash:readline__return -p <pid> sleep 20
  perf script

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-uprobe.html

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubrav...@fb.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c        | 4 ++--
 kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index abbd4b3b96c2..3005c80f621d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8532,9 +8532,9 @@ static int perf_tp_event_match(struct perf_event *event,
        if (event->hw.state & PERF_HES_STOPPED)
                return 0;
        /*
-        * All tracepoints are from kernel-space.
+        * If exclude_kernel, only trace user-space tracepoints (uprobes)
         */
-       if (event->attr.exclude_kernel)
+       if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs))
                return 0;
 
        if (!perf_tp_filter_match(event, data))
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
index be78d99ee6bc..bfd3040b4cfb 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ static inline void init_trace_event_call(struct 
trace_uprobe *tu,
        call->event.funcs = &uprobe_funcs;
        call->class->define_fields = uprobe_event_define_fields;
 
-       call->flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE;
+       call->flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE | TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY;
        call->class->reg = trace_uprobe_register;
        call->data = tu;
 }
-- 
2.17.1