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    trace/bpf_trace: Open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process · 031258da
    Alexey Budankov authored
    Open access to bpf_trace 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 bpf_trace monitoring
    remains open for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN
    usage for secure bpf_trace monitoring is discouraged with respect to
    CAP_PERFMON capability.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJames Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
    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: 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/c0a0ae47-8b6e-ff3e-416b-3cd1faaf71c0@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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