@cryptotaxi247 / netdata-1 / commits / 6c5bb166c

Fixed handling of perf.plugin capabilities. (#10766)

CAP_PERFMON is only available with Linux kernel 5.8 or newer, and needs a sufficiently up-to-date userspace to be able to set it. With this change, we fall back to CAP_SYS_ADMIN (which CAP_PERFMON is a proper subset of) if we cannot set CAP_PERFMON for the perf plugin.

Austin S. Hemmelgarn committed Mar 15, 2021 at 10:54 UTC 6c5bb166ca16dad2f6f51e55a3a0c9965de15d04
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netdata-installer.sh
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@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ if [ "${UID}" -eq 0 ]; then
1314 if [ -f "${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin" ]; then
1315 run chown root:${NETDATA_GROUP} "${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin"
1316 run chmod 0750 "${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin"
1317 - run setcap cap_perfmon+ep "${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin"
1317 + run sh -c "setcap cap_perfmon+ep \"${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin\" || setcap cap_sys_admin+ep \"${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/perf.plugin\""
1318 fi
1319
1320 if [ -f "${NETDATA_PREFIX}/usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/slabinfo.plugin" ]; then