perf: Fix required permissions if sigtrap is requested
If perf_event_open() is called with another task as target and perf_event_attr::sigtrap is set, and the target task's user does not match the calling user, also require the CAP_KILL capability or PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH permissions. Otherwise, with the CAP_PERFMON capability alone it would be possible for a user to send SIGTRAP signals via perf events to another user's tasks. This could potentially result in those tasks being terminated if they cannot handle SIGTRAP signals. Note: The check complements the existing capability check, but is not supposed to supersede the ptrace_may_access() check. At a high level we now have: capable of CAP_PERFMON and (CAP_KILL if sigtrap) OR ptrace_may_access(...) // also checks for same thread-group and uid Fixes: 97ba62b2 ("perf: Add support for SIGTRAP on perf events") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.13+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210705084453.2151729-1-elver@google.com
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