Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Oct 2015 11:10:31 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1] perf report: Fix owner error when reading perf.data |
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* Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com> wrote:
> If perf.data file is owned by some user, > it can't be read even if current user is root.
That's intentional: to keep a malicious local user from passing a perf.data to root who does 'perf report' accidentally or in the wrong directory.
root can copy or chown it to himself - or we could add some --really-force flag for that.
Thanks,
Ingo
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