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GIT PULL Ingo Molnar 1 participant 1 message May 10, 2016

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Linus,

Please pull the latest perf-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git perf-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 93193230f7b8bd484d1749f4044d1214d521c804 perf/core: Change the default paranoia level to 2

Bump up the default perf paranoia level to 2 because otherwise perf can be used by local users to defeat KASLR, amongst other things.

Thanks,

Ingo

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Andy Lutomirski (1):
perf/core: Change the default paranoia level to 2

 Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 2 +-
 kernel/events/core.c            | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +1 -1
index 57653a44b128..fcddfd5ded99 100644
@@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ allowed to execute.
 perf_event_paranoid:
 
 Controls use of the performance events system by unprivileged
-users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  The default value is 1.
+users (without CAP_SYS_ADMIN).  The default value is 2.
 
  -1: Allow use of (almost) all events by all users
 >=0: Disallow raw tracepoint access by users without CAP_IOC_LOCK
kernel/events/core.c +1 -1
index 4e2ebf6f2f1f..c0ded2416615 100644
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ static struct srcu_struct pmus_srcu;
  *   1 - disallow cpu events for unpriv
  *   2 - disallow kernel profiling for unpriv
  */
-int sysctl_perf_event_paranoid __read_mostly = 1;
+int sysctl_perf_event_paranoid __read_mostly = 2;
 
 /* Minimum for 512 kiB + 1 user control page */
 int sysctl_perf_event_mlock __read_mostly = 512 + (PAGE_SIZE / 1024); /* 'free' kiB per user */