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authorAlexey Budankov <[email protected]>2020-08-05 10:31:20 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>2020-08-06 09:04:23 -0300
commit4b0297ef8a4ecd56ec105e49752d1378e4f8a2f4 (patch)
tree770c445f39e7ca4af40aa80affe99ad1769153b8
parent347a7389a7cc9b91f80deb8d7043e9827d08b328 (diff)
perf evsel: Extend message to mention CAP_SYS_PTRACE and perf security doc link
Adjust limited access message to mention CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability for processes of unprivileged users. Add link to perf security document in the end of the section about capabilities. The change has been inspired by this discussion: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/evsel.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index b1845f799d81..fd865002cbbd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2502,8 +2502,10 @@ int evsel__open_strerror(struct evsel *evsel, struct target *target,
return scnprintf(msg + printed, size - printed,
"Consider adjusting /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_paranoid setting to open\n"
- "access to performance monitoring and observability operations for users\n"
- "without CAP_PERFMON or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability.\n"
+ "access to performance monitoring and observability operations for processes\n"
+ "without CAP_PERFMON, CAP_SYS_PTRACE or CAP_SYS_ADMIN Linux capability.\n"
+ "More information can be found at 'Perf events and tool security' document:\n"
+ "https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/perf-security.html\n"
"perf_event_paranoid setting is %d:\n"
" -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users\n"
" Ignore mlock limit after perf_event_mlock_kb without CAP_IPC_LOCK\n"