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perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer
authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 5 Nov 2013 17:51:11 +0000 (12:51 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 18:42:15 +0000 (10:42 -0800)
commitb8d125faff42139ad14da49479d903ab696a009e
tree0923363c289321cd8f6115d0dbac353094591338
parent888123fed8befb905785525ee1796f5adfef087d
perf/ftrace: Fix paranoid level for enabling function tracer

commit 12ae030d54ef250706da5642fc7697cc60ad0df7 upstream.

The current default perf paranoid level is "1" which has
"perf_paranoid_kernel()" return false, and giving any operations that
use it, access to normal users. Unfortunately, this includes function
tracing and normal users should not be allowed to enable function
tracing by default.

The proper level is defined at "-1" (full perf access), which
"perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw()" will only give access to. Use that
check instead for enabling function tracing.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
CVE: CVE-2013-2930
Fixes: ced39002f5ea ("ftrace, perf: Add support to use function tracepoint in perf")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c