Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-12-06 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 17:10:48 -0800 Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:15 AM Alexey Budankov > wrote: > > > > > > Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file > > covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. > > > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner > >

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-12-06 Thread Alexey Budankov
On 06.12.2018 4:10, Kees Cook wrote: > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:15 AM Alexey Budankov > wrote: >> >> >> Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file >> covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. >> >> Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner >> Signed-off-by: Alexey B

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-12-05 Thread Kees Cook
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 12:15 AM Alexey Budankov wrote: > > > Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file > covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. > > Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner > Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov Reviewed-by: Kees Cook -Kees > ---

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-12-03 Thread Alexey Budankov
Hi Peter, On 27.11.2018 22:13, Alexey Budankov wrote: > On 27.11.2018 21:11, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:15:37 +0300 >> Alexey Budankov wrote: >> >>> +To perform security checks, the Linux implementation splits processes into >>> two >>> +categories [6]_ : a) privileged proc

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-27 Thread Alexey Budankov
On 27.11.2018 21:11, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:15:37 +0300 > Alexey Budankov wrote: > >> +To perform security checks, the Linux implementation splits processes into >> two >> +categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose effective user ID is 0, >> referred >> +to as su

Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-27 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:15:37 +0300 Alexey Budankov wrote: > +To perform security checks, the Linux implementation splits processes into > two > +categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose effective user ID is 0, > referred > +to as superuser or root), and b) unprivileged processes (whose

[PATCH v4 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-27 Thread Alexey Budankov
Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov --- Changes in v4: - added docs for perf_event related capabilities Changes in v3: - toning down of the mar