Re: [PATCH v7 03/12] perf/core: open access to probes for CAP_PERFMON privileged process

2020-02-18 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 17 Feb 2020, Alexey Budankov wrote: > > Open access to monitoring via kprobes and uprobes and eBPF tracing 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 cred

[PATCH v7 03/12] perf/core: open access to probes for CAP_PERFMON privileged process

2020-02-17 Thread Alexey Budankov
Open access to monitoring via kprobes and uprobes and eBPF tracing 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. perf kprobes