From e712209a9e0b70e78b13847738eb66fe37412515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephane Eranian Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:02:04 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] perf: Fix hypervisor branch sampling permission check Commit 2b923c8 perf/x86: Check branch sampling priv level in generic code was missing the check for the hypervisor (HV) priv level, so add it back. With this patch, we get the following correct behavior: # echo 2 >/proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid $ perf record -j any,k noploop 1 Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: -1 - Not paranoid at all 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv $ perf record -j any,hv noploop 1 Error: You may not have permission to collect stats. Consider tweaking /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid: -1 - Not paranoid at all 0 - Disallow raw tracepoint access for unpriv 1 - Disallow cpu events for unpriv 2 - Disallow kernel profiling for unpriv Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian Acked-by: Petr Matousek Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130606090204.GA3725@quad Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/events/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index d0e0d0d2025f..aca95bce34c8 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6573,8 +6573,8 @@ static int perf_copy_attr(struct perf_event_attr __user *uattr, */ attr->branch_sample_type = mask; } - /* kernel level capture: check permissions */ - if ((mask & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL) + /* privileged levels capture (kernel, hv): check permissions */ + if ((mask & PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_PERM_PLM) && perf_paranoid_kernel() && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EACCES; }