[PATCH v4 1/9] capabilities: introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON to kernel and user space

[Song Liu]

> On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:24 AM, Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Introduce CAP_SYS_PERFMON capability devoted to secure system performance
> monitoring and observability operations so that CAP_SYS_PERFMON would
> assist CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in its governing role for perf_events,
> i915_perf and other subsystems of the kernel.
> 
> CAP_SYS_PERFMON intends to harden system security and integrity during
> system performance monitoring and observability operations by decreasing
> attack surface that is available to CAP_SYS_ADMIN privileged processes.
> 
> CAP_SYS_PERFMON intends to take over CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials related
> to system performance monitoring and observability operations and balance
> amount of CAP_SYS_ADMIN credentials in accordance with the recommendations
> provided in the man page for CAP_SYS_ADMIN [1]: "Note: this capability
> is overloaded; see Notes to kernel developers, below."
> 
> [1] https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__man7.org_linux_man-2Dpages_man7_capabilities.7.html&d=DwICaQ&c=5VD0RTtNlTh3ycd41b3MUw&r=dR8692q0_uaizy0jkrBJQM5k2hfm4CiFxYT8KaysFrg&m=L5qCuMRrTvYhyjR1rpgE9vEv4HppVlOXDIzKzoGL30c&s=FNJpET4buKFRuqktVHQphaY1qE7IsdFpU4iYwpCn4tY&e= 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov at linux.intel.com>

Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving at fb.com>