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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-28 07:44:53 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-08-28 07:44:53 -0400 |
commit | 6bb56347f5162d1a7cb1dc461023360781ecd4c0 (patch) | |
tree | a2f1926c1ad68da16e05a2586645ca3de20ab7c5 | |
parent | 326ba5010a5429a5a528b268b36a5900d4ab0eba (diff) |
perf_counters: Increase paranoia level
Per-cpu counters are an ASLR information leak as they show
the execution other tasks do. Increase the paranoia level
to 1, which disallows per-cpu counters. (they still allow
counting/profiling of own tasks - and admin can profile
everything.)
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/perf_counter.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c index f274e1959885..7d4bb83b78cf 100644 --- a/kernel/perf_counter.c +++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c | |||
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ static atomic_t nr_task_counters __read_mostly; | |||
50 | * 1 - disallow cpu counters to unpriv | 50 | * 1 - disallow cpu counters to unpriv |
51 | * 2 - disallow kernel profiling to unpriv | 51 | * 2 - disallow kernel profiling to unpriv |
52 | */ | 52 | */ |
53 | int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid __read_mostly; | 53 | int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid __read_mostly = 1; |
54 | 54 | ||
55 | static inline bool perf_paranoid_cpu(void) | 55 | static inline bool perf_paranoid_cpu(void) |
56 | { | 56 | { |