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From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v6 1/5] docs: proc: add documentation about mount restrictions
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:41:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e57f67df145fd79baabd4c8cbaa75c7d1269282a.1615567183.git.gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1615567183.git.gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
index 2fa69f710e2a..5a1bb0e081fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ fixes/update part 1.1  Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>    June 9 2009
 
   4	Configuring procfs
   4.1	Mount options
+  4.2	Mount restrictions
 
   5	Filesystem behavior
 
@@ -2175,6 +2176,19 @@ information about processes information, just add identd to this group.
 subset=pid hides all top level files and directories in the procfs that
 are not related to tasks.
 
+4.2	Mount restrictions
+--------------------------
+
+If user namespaces are in use, the kernel additionally checks the instances of
+procfs available to the mounter and will not allow procfs to be mounted if:
+
+  1. This mount is not fully visible.
+
+     a. It's root directory is not the root directory of the filesystem.
+     b. If any file or non-empty procfs directory is hidden by another mount.
+
+  2. A new mount overrides the readonly option or any option from atime familty.
+
 Chapter 5: Filesystem behavior
 ==============================
 
-- 
2.29.3


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-12 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-12 16:41 [PATCH v6 0/5] proc: subset=pid: Relax check of mount visibility Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-12 16:41 ` Alexey Gladkov [this message]
2021-03-12 16:41 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] proc: subset=pid: Show /proc/self/net only for CAP_NET_ADMIN Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-12 16:41 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] proc: Disable cancellation of subset=pid option Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-12 16:41 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] proc: Relax check of mount visibility Alexey Gladkov
2021-03-12 16:41 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] docs: proc: add documentation about relaxing visibility restrictions Alexey Gladkov

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