perf/core: Take over CAP_SYS_PTRACE creds to CAP_PERFMON capability

Open access to per-process monitoring for CAP_PERFMON only
privileged processes [1]. Extend ptrace_may_access() check
in perf_events subsystem with perfmon_capable() to simplify
user experience and make monitoring more secure by reducing
attack surface.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Author: Alexey Budankov

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -11689,15 +11689,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(perf_event_open,
 			goto err_task;
 
 		/*
-		 * Reuse ptrace permission checks for now.
+		 * Preserve ptrace permission check for backwards compatibility.
 		 *
 		 * We must hold exec_update_mutex across this and any potential
 		 * perf_install_in_context() call for this new event to
 		 * serialize against exec() altering our credentials (and the
 		 * perf_event_exit_task() that could imply).
 		 */
 		err = -EACCES;
-		if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
+		if (!perfmon_capable() && !ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_REALCREDS))
 			goto err_cred;
 	}