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powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process

Open access to 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 the monitoring remains open
for CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes but CAP_SYS_ADMIN usage for
secure monitoring is discouraged with respect to CAP_PERFMON capability.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.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: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.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/ac98cd9f-b59e-673c-c70d-180b3e7695d2@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

authored by

Alexey Budankov and committed by
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
ff467583 031258da

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arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
··· 976 976 if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) 977 977 return -ENOENT; 978 978 979 - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) 979 + if (!perfmon_capable()) 980 980 return -EACCES; 981 981 982 982 /* Sampling not supported */ ··· 1412 1412 if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) 1413 1413 return -ENOENT; 1414 1414 1415 - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) 1415 + if (!perfmon_capable()) 1416 1416 return -EACCES; 1417 1417 1418 1418 /* Return if this is a couting event */