[PATCH bpf-next] bpf, capabilities: introduce CAP_BPF

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Aug 29 17:47:22 UTC 2019


On Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:19:24 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 09:34:34AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > As the above seems to favor the idea of CAP_TRACING allowing write
> > access to tracefs, should we have a CAP_TRACING_RO for just read access
> > and limited perf abilities?  
> 
> read only vs writeable is an attribute of the file system.
> Bringing such things into caps seem wrong to me.

So using groups then? I'm fine with that.

-- Steve



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