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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/perf_counter.c b/kernel/perf_counter.c
index f274e19..7d4bb83 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_counter.c
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
* 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)
{