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[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 38/89] perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0

From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-09-22 19:11:55
Also in: lkml, stable
Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds

From: Igor Lubashev <redacted>

[ Upstream commit c766f3df635de14295e410c6dd5410bc416c24a0 ]

The kernel requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0 to mount debugfs
for ftrace.  Make perf do the same.

Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <redacted>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <redacted>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd8763b72ed4d58d0b42d44fbc7eb474d32e53a3.1565188228.git.ilubashe@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
index 13a33fb71a6da..6f07c5541fdea 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <poll.h>
+#include <linux/capability.h>
 
 #include "debug.h"
 #include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 #include "target.h"
 #include "cpumap.h"
 #include "thread_map.h"
+#include "util/cap.h"
 #include "util/config.h"
 
 
@@ -270,7 +272,7 @@ static int __cmd_ftrace(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace, int argc, const char **argv)
 		.events = POLLIN,
 	};
 
-	if (geteuid() != 0) {
+	if (!perf_cap__capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
 		pr_err("ftrace only works for root!\n");
 		return -1;
 	}
-- 
2.20.1


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