Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

From: Tim Hockin
Date: Wed Sep 15 2004 - 16:05:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 04:33:34PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> > In which namespace? All of them? Is that an information leak that might
> > be hazardous (I'm bad with security stuff).
>
> You can only see your own namespace. So e.g. /proc/mtab is your name
> space's mount table and you can rescan that when receiving the mount
> signal.

> So there is no information leak.

Are you not sending it with some specific device as the source? Or is it
just coming from some abstract root kobject?
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