Messages in this thread | | | From | Anju T Sudhakar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 07/10] powerpc/perf: open access for CAP_PERFMON privileged process | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:32:00 +0530 |
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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@linux.intel.com> > ---
Acked-by: Anju T Sudhakar<anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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