Re: [PATCH v5 7/7] proc: add option to mount only a pids subset

From: Alexey Gladkov
Date: Mon May 14 2018 - 05:09:16 EST


On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 03:58:39PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Alexey Gladkov
> <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This allows to hide all files and directories in the procfs that are not
> > related to tasks.
>
> /proc/$pid/net and /proc/$pid/task/$tid/net aren't in scope for this
> protection, even though they contain information about the whole
> network namespace of the task, right?

Yes. The pidonly makes visible only pids subset. You can still access the
process namespaces via /proc/$pid/ns.

We can think of additional constraints since the parameters are not
stored in the pid namespace anymore.

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