On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<arnaldo.m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Em Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:27:26AM -0800, Brendan Gregg escreveu:
>> G'Day,
>>
>> # perf record -F 99 -a -g -- sleep 30
>> [...]
>> # perf report -n --stdio
>> File /tmp/perf-25958.map not owned by current user or root, ignoring it.
>>
>> Can root bypass this test? I'm root, and profiling apps from different
>
> In other places such tests are overridable via '-f' (force), this one
> should too, I think.
>
> # perf report
> File perf.data not owned by current user or root (use -f to override)
> [root@zoo linux]# ls -la perf.data
> -rw-------. 1 acme acme 20032 Nov 12 15:50 perf.data
Yes, a -f option would work too...
Brendan
>
> - Arnaldo
>
>> user-IDs, and the current workaround is to "chown root
>> /tmp/perf*.map". Shouldn't root be able to read these map files? Could
>> we:
>>
>> --- linux-perf/tools/perf/util/symbol.c 2015-11-03 20:08:40.829320940
>> +0000
>> +++ linux-perf-edited/tools/perf/util/symbol.c 2015-11-12
>> 18:21:35.487077872 +0000
>> @@ -1433,14 +1433,17 @@
>> dso->adjust_symbols = 0;
>>
>> if (strncmp(dso->name, "/tmp/perf-", 10) == 0) {
>> + uint_t euid;
>> struct stat st;
>>
>> if (lstat(dso->name, &st) < 0)
>> goto out;
>>
>> - if (st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != geteuid())) {
>> - pr_warning("File %s not owned by current user or root, "
>> - "ignoring it.\n", dso->name);
>> + euid = geteuid();
>> + if (euid && st.st_uid && (st.st_uid != euid)) {
>> + pr_warning("File %s not owned by current user, and "
>> + "current user is not root. Ignoring it.\n",
>> + dso->name);
>> goto out;
>> }
>>
>> Brendan
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