Re: [RFC 0/5 v4] procfs: introduce hidepid=, hidenet=, gid= mountoptions

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Thu Jun 16 2011 - 09:34:19 EST


Arnd,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:40 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> E.g. if all the sensitive information
> you are hiding in procfs is still available through netlink, your patch
> is pointless.

Ah, I've complitely missed this piece of a puzzle! :( With procfs, proc
connector and taskstats (probably, something else) should be restricted
too.

Thank you very much for this notice!

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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