linux/kernel/events
Song Liu 32e6e967fb 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 <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 33ea4b2427 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_uprobe' PMU")
Fixes: e12f03d703 ("perf/core: Implement the 'perf_kprobe' PMU")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/C0B2EFB5-C403-4BDB-9046-C14B3EE66999@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-12 09:55:50 +02:00
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callchain.c perf: Make perf_callchain function static 2018-01-08 12:33:01 -03:00
core.c perf/core: Need CAP_SYS_ADMIN to create k/uprobe with perf_event_open() 2018-04-12 09:55:50 +02:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2018-03-29 16:03:48 +02:00
internal.h perf: Make perf_callchain function static 2018-01-08 12:33:01 -03:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ring_buffer.c vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
uprobes.c uprobes: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() 2017-12-04 10:52:55 -08:00