Commit 9fd2e48b authored May 07, 2019 by Song Liu Committed by Ingo Molnar Jun 03, 2019

perf/core: Allow non-privileged uprobe for user processes

Currently, non-privileged user could only use uprobe with

    kernel.perf_event_paranoid = -1

However, setting perf_event_paranoid to -1 leaks other users' processes to
non-privileged uprobes.

To introduce proper permission control of uprobes, we are building the
following system:

  A daemon with CAP_SYS_ADMIN is in charge to create uprobes via tracefs;
  Users asks the daemon to create uprobes;
  Then user can attach uprobe only to processes owned by the user.

This patch allows non-privileged user to attach uprobe to processes owned
by the user.

The following example shows how to use uprobe with non-privileged user.
This is based on Brendan's blog post [1]

1. Create uprobe with root:

  sudo perf probe -x 'readline%return +0($retval):string'

2. Then non-root user can use the uprobe as:

  perf record -vvv -e probe_bash:readline__return -p <pid> sleep 20
  perf script

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2015-06-28/linux-ftrace-uprobe.html



Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <kernel-team@fb.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190507161545.788381-1-songliubraving@fb.com


Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent f7b6a8b3

kernel/events/core.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -8532,9 +8532,9 @@ static int perf_tp_event_match(struct perf_event *event,
		if (event->hw.state & PERF_HES_STOPPED)
		return 0;
		/*
		* All tracepoints are from kernel-space.
		* If exclude_kernel, only trace user-space tracepoints (uprobes)
		*/
		if (event->attr.exclude_kernel)
		if (event->attr.exclude_kernel && !user_mode(regs))
		return 0;

		if (!perf_tp_filter_match(event, data))

kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1331,7 +1331,7 @@ static inline void init_trace_event_call(struct trace_uprobe *tu,
		call->event.funcs = &uprobe_funcs;
		call->class->define_fields = uprobe_event_define_fields;

		call->flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE;
		call->flags = TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE \| TRACE_EVENT_FL_CAP_ANY;
		call->class->reg = trace_uprobe_register;
		call->data = tu;
		}

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