[PATCH 6/6] perf symbols: Allow forcing reading of non-root owned files by root

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>

When the root user tries to read a file owned by some other user we get:

  # ls -la perf.data
  -rw-------. 1 acme acme 20032 Nov 12 15:50 perf.data
  # perf report
  File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
  # perf report -f | grep -v ^# | head -2
    30.96%  ls       [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] do_set_pte
    28.24%  ls       libc-2.20.so      [.] intel_check_word
  #

That wasn't happening when the symbol code tried to read a JIT map,
where the same check was done but no forcing was possible, fix it.

Reported-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user/2380
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 6 +++---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c    | 4 ++--
 tools/perf/util/symbol.h    | 1 +
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 2853ad2bd435..f256fac1e722 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 struct report {
 	struct perf_tool	tool;
 	struct perf_session	*session;
-	bool			force, use_tui, use_gtk, use_stdio;
+	bool			use_tui, use_gtk, use_stdio;
 	bool			hide_unresolved;
 	bool			dont_use_callchains;
 	bool			show_full_info;
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 		   "file", "vmlinux pathname"),
 	OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name,
 		   "file", "kallsyms pathname"),
-	OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &report.force, "don't complain, do it"),
+	OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &symbol_conf.force, "don't complain, do it"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "modules", &symbol_conf.use_modules,
 		    "load module symbols - WARNING: use only with -k and LIVE kernel"),
 	OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "show-nr-samples", &symbol_conf.show_nr_samples,
@@ -832,7 +832,7 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 	}
 
 	file.path  = input_name;
-	file.force = report.force;
+	file.force = symbol_conf.force;
 
 repeat:
 	session = perf_session__new(&file, false, &report.tool);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 09343a880c0b..cd08027a6d2c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1436,9 +1436,9 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
 		if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
 			goto out;
 
-		if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
+		if (!symbol_conf.force && st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
 			pr_warning("File %s not owned by current user or root, "
-				"ignoring it.\n", dso->name);
+				   "ignoring it (use -f to override).\n", dso->name);
 			goto out;
 		}
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 40073c60b83d..dcd786e364f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct symbol_conf {
 	unsigned short	priv_size;
 	unsigned short	nr_events;
 	bool		try_vmlinux_path,
+			force,
 			ignore_vmlinux,
 			ignore_vmlinux_buildid,
 			show_kernel_path,
-- 
2.1.0

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