[PATCH v2 0/4] perf: make Perf tool aware of SELinux access control

Alexey Budankov alexey.budankov at linux.intel.com
Wed Apr 22 14:40:15 UTC 2020


Changes in v2:
- implemented minor doc and code changes to substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN
  with CAP_PERFMON capability;
- introduced Perf doc file with instructions on how to enable and use
  perf_event LSM hooks for mandatory access control to perf_event_open()
  syscall;

v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b8a0669e-36e4-a0e8-fd35-3dbd890d2170@linux.intel.com/

repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git perf/core
sha1: ee097e8ee56f8867cbbf45fe2a06f6b9e660c39c


Extend Perf tool with the check of /sys/fs/selinux/enforce value and notify 
in case access to perf_event_open() syscall is restricted by the enforced 
SELinux policy settings. See new added security.txt file for exact steps
how the changes look like and how to test the patch set.

---
Alexey Budankov (4):
  perf trace: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON in error message
  perf docs: substitute CAP_SYS_ADMIN with CAP_PERFMON where needed
  perf tool: make Perf tool aware of SELinux access control
  perf docs: introduce security.txt file to document related issues

 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-intel-pt.txt |   2 +-
 tools/perf/Documentation/security.txt      | 236 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c                |   2 +-
 tools/perf/design.txt                      |   3 +-
 tools/perf/util/cloexec.c                  |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                    |  40 ++--
 6 files changed, 265 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/Documentation/security.txt

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