Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2019 16:24:35 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] Introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability for secure Perf users groups |
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:52:15PM +0300, Alexey Budankov wrote: > Undoubtedly, SELinux is the powerful, mature, whole level of functionality that > could provide benefits not only for perf_events subsystem. However perf_events > is built around capabilities to provide access control to its functionality, > thus perf_events would require considerable rework prior it could be controlled > thru SELinux.
You mean this:
da97e18458fb ("perf_event: Add support for LSM and SELinux checks")
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> Then the adoption could also require changes to the installed > infrastructure just for the sake of adopting alternative access control mechanism.
This is still very much true.
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