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authorJeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>2016-05-29 14:22:32 -0700
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>2016-06-16 13:44:10 +0530
commit934f4983c760c38be86ea5e9a008db8a66395eca (patch)
treee93de1843c1186dfb1b7113cf96ce5b612e389fc /security/Kconfig
parent690829a7aded2df9907edbdbf7c18b0f1556066e (diff)
FROMLIST: security,perf: Allow further restriction of perf_event_open
When kernel.perf_event_open is set to 3 (or greater), disallow all access to performance events by users without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. Add a Kconfig symbol CONFIG_SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT that makes this value the default. This is based on a similar feature in grsecurity (CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_PERF_HARDEN). This version doesn't include making the variable read-only. It also allows enabling further restriction at run-time regardless of whether the default is changed. https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/1/11/587 Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Bug: 29054680 Change-Id: Iff5bff4fc1042e85866df9faa01bce8d04335ab8
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diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index e45237897b43..30a2603e8c85 100644
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+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -18,6 +18,15 @@ config SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT
If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
+config SECURITY_PERF_EVENTS_RESTRICT
+ bool "Restrict unprivileged use of performance events"
+ depends on PERF_EVENTS
+ help
+ If you say Y here, the kernel.perf_event_paranoid sysctl
+ will be set to 3 by default, and no unprivileged use of the
+ perf_event_open syscall will be permitted unless it is
+ changed.
+
config SECURITY
bool "Enable different security models"
depends on SYSFS