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| author | Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com> | 2019-08-07 10:44:17 -0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2019-08-14 10:59:59 -0300 |
| commit | c766f3df635de14295e410c6dd5410bc416c24a0 (patch) | |
| tree | 134140dc19153cbab6e9512de1a09e47e8b758e7 /tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | |
| parent | 083c1359b0e03867a8c7effd21d4c0be3639f336 (diff) | |
perf ftrace: Use CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0
The kernel requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN instead of euid==0 to mount debugfs
for ftrace. Make perf do the same.
Signed-off-by: Igor Lubashev <ilubashe@akamai.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexey Budankov <alexey.budankov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suzuki Poulouse <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bd8763b72ed4d58d0b42d44fbc7eb474d32e53a3.1565188228.git.ilubashe@akamai.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c index 20d4c0ce8b53..01a5bb58eb04 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ #include <signal.h> #include <fcntl.h> #include <poll.h> +#include <linux/capability.h> #include "debug.h" #include <subcmd/parse-options.h> @@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ #include "target.h" #include "cpumap.h" #include "thread_map.h" +#include "util/cap.h" #include "util/config.h" @@ -281,7 +283,7 @@ static int __cmd_ftrace(struct perf_ftrace *ftrace, int argc, const char **argv) .events = POLLIN, }; - if (geteuid() != 0) { + if (!perf_cap__capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { pr_err("ftrace only works for root!\n"); return -1; } |