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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] bpf: introduce current->pid, tgid, uid,
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:38:28 -0700
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On 6/12/15 4:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> It's a dangerous tool.  Also, shouldn't the returned uid match the
> namespace of the task that installed the probe, not the task that's
> being probed?

so leaking info to unprivileged apps is the concern?
The whole thing is for root only as you know.
The non-root is still far away. Today root needs to see the whole
kernel. That was the goal from the beginning.