On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:16:29PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 03:03:04PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > Is there some path through sys_perf_open_event that might be > > > missing a capability check perhaps ? > > > > > > > That's a question for Ingo, Peter or Jiri. > > Its not something I've looked at recently, git blames Jiri and fweisbec > for most of that code. > > Permission checks appear to live in > kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c:perf_trace_event_perm().
Well, it also depends on sysctl kernel.perf_event_paranoid settings. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

