Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] perf report: Fix owner error when reading perf.data | From | Taeung Song <> | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:26:26 +0900 |
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> On Oct 1, 2015, at 6:10 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote: > > > * Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If perf.data file is owned by some user, >> it can't be read even if current user is root. > > That's intentional: to keep a malicious local user from passing a perf.data to > root who does 'perf report' accidentally or in the wrong directory. > > root can copy or chown it to himself - or we could add some --really-force flag > for that.
I got it. I didn’t know its intention.
Thanks, Taeung
> > Thanks, > > Ingo
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