linux/arch/parisc
Alexey Budankov cf91baf3f7 parisc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process
Open access to monitoring for CAP_PERFMON privileged process.  Providing
the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly, without the rest of
CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to misuse the credentials
and makes operation more secure.

CAP_PERFMON implements the principle of least privilege for performance
monitoring and observability operations (POSIX IEEE 1003.1e 2.2.2.39
principle of least privilege: A security design principle that states
that a process or program be granted only those privileges (e.g.,
capabilities) necessary to accomplish its legitimate function, and only
for the time that such privileges are actually required)

For backward compatibility reasons access to the monitoring remains open
for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for
secure monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8cc98809-d35b-de0f-de02-4cf554f3cf62@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2020-04-16 12:19:08 -03:00
..
boot .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
configs parisc: Regenerate parisc defconfigs 2020-02-03 22:38:12 +01:00
include mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() 2020-04-10 15:36:21 -07:00
kernel parisc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process 2020-04-16 12:19:08 -03:00
lib parisc: Add assembly implementations for memset, strlen, strcpy, strncpy and strcat 2019-08-03 08:56:57 +02:00
math-emu Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to just -Wimplicit-fallthrough for clang 2019-08-10 12:45:37 -07:00
mm mm: allow VM_FAULT_RETRY for multiple times 2020-04-02 09:35:30 -07:00
oprofile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
defpalo.conf parisc: switch to gzip-compressed vmlinuz kernel 2013-07-09 22:09:20 +02:00
install.sh parisc: make "make install" not depend on vmlinux 2013-11-07 22:28:06 +01:00
Kconfig parisc: Fix defconfig selection 2020-03-27 15:37:24 +01:00
Kconfig.debug Kconfig: consolidate the "Kernel hacking" menu 2018-08-02 08:06:48 +09:00
Makefile parisc: Fix defconfig selection 2020-03-27 15:37:24 +01:00
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