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daemon: add API to get kernel symbols

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This is useful because we might not have access to kernel symbols from
user applications which are not root. Various distributions are starting
to censor kernel addresses without root.

This allows the clients to fetch the symbol addresses without having to
be root themselves.
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Christian Hergert
2018-01-28 21:30:19 -08:00
parent cf756c65aa
commit 3162b40702
4 changed files with 113 additions and 13 deletions
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data/org.gnome.sysprof2.policy.in
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@ -17,6 +17,18 @@
<allow_inactive>auth_admin_keep</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.imply">org.gnome.sysprof2.get-kernel-symbols</annotate>
</action>
<action id="org.gnome.sysprof2.get-kernel-symbols">
<description>Get a list of kernel symbols and their address</description>
<message>Authentication is required to access Linux kernel information.</message>
<defaults>
<allow_any>auth_admin_keep</allow_any>
<allow_inactive>auth_admin_keep</allow_inactive>
<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
</defaults>
<annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.imply">org.gnome.sysprof2.perf-event-open</annotate>
</action>
</policyconfig>