tracing: New flag to allow non privileged users to use a trace event

[deliverable/linux.git] / kernel / perf_event.c

diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index 517d827f498281da50210aa76a02b4693116154a..ee1e903f983c1dab47489250f7b6aaf861e2ae4f 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -4747,15 +4747,6 @@ static int perf_tp_event_init(struct perf_event *event)
        if (event->attr.type != PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT)
                return -ENOENT;
 
-       /*
-        * Raw tracepoint data is a severe data leak, only allow root to
-        * have these.
-        */
-       if ((event->attr.sample_type & PERF_SAMPLE_RAW) &&
-                       perf_paranoid_tracepoint_raw() &&
-                       !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-               return -EPERM;
-
        err = perf_trace_init(event);
        if (err)
                return err;