From: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:48:29 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: powerpc/perf: Add privileged access check for thread_imc
X-Git-Tag: v5.15~6398^2~23
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=216c3087a346db8d7c8a064d2b8f0f49e4694934;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-starfive.git

powerpc/perf: Add privileged access check for thread_imc

Add code to restrict user access to thread_imc pmu since
some event report privilege level information.

Fixes: f74c89bd80fb3 ("powerpc/perf: Add thread IMC PMU support")
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
---

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
index 23092a3..975837d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c
@@ -864,6 +864,9 @@ static int thread_imc_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
 	if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
+	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	/* Sampling not supported */
 	if (event->hw.sample_period)
 		return -EINVAL;