Re: [PATCH v5 07/10] powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process

From: Anju T Sudhakar
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 06:02:49 EST



On 1/20/20 5:00 PM, Alexey Budankov wrote:
Open access to monitoring for CAP_PERFMON privileged processes.
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. Providing the access under CAP_PERFMON capability singly,
without the rest of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials, excludes chances to
misuse the credentials and makes the operations more secure.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov<alexey.budankov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Acked-by: Anju T Sudhakar<anju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>