From 6bb56347f5162d1a7cb1dc461023360781ecd4c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:44:53 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/perf_counter.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) 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; * 1 - disallow cpu counters to unpriv * 2 - disallow kernel profiling to unpriv */ -int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid __read_mostly; +int sysctl_perf_counter_paranoid __read_mostly = 1; static inline bool perf_paranoid_cpu(void) { -- 2.20.1