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Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 13:28:33 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce
perf-security.rst file
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:57:21 +0300
Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> +For the purpose of performing security checks Linux implementation splits
> >> +processes into two categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose effective
> >> +user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root), and b) unprivileged processes
> >> +(whose effective UID is nonzero).
> >
> > Is that really what's going on here? If I understand things correctly,
> > it's looking for CAP_SYS_PTRACE rather than a specific UID; am I missing
> > something here?
>
> You are right regarding CAP_SYS_PTRACE but this capability is not the only
> one which is used by perf_events for security checks, so the capabilities
> clarification is kept aside of these patches, because patches initial intention
> is to clarify security specifics of sysctl_perf_even_paranoid settings.
>
> I agree that the document can be extended with details clarifying capabilities
> used by perf_events for security checks.
I don't really like the idea of adding a document that we know doesn't
really describe how the security decision is made. Even a one-line
parenthetical saying that things are more complicated and giving a pointer
to a place to look for details would help, IMO.
Either way, I can merge this, but I'd like to have an ack from the perf
folks first.
Thanks,
jon
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