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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patrics@interia.pl,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:12:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050913171215.GS25261@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509131000040.3351@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:01:58AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > What we need is to decide what kind of access control do we really want on
> > /proc/<pid>/task.  That's it.
> 
> I don't think any controls at all. The real control should then be on the
> /proc/<pid>/task/<tid> access, which should be the same as the /proc/<pid>
> controls (except for thread <tid> rather than thread <pid>, of course)

Well...  If exposing the list of tasks in a group is OK, we can just leave
->permission NULL for that sucker.  If it's not (and arguably it can be
sensitive information), we have a bigger problem - right now chroot boundary
is the only control we have there; normally anyone can ls /proc/<whatever>/task
and see other threads.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-13 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 17:46 [PATCH 2.6.13.1] Patch for invisible threads Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-12 20:49 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13 13:10   ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-13 14:53     ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 16:51       ` Al Viro
2005-09-13 17:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13 17:12           ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-09-13 21:30             ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-13 21:56               ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-13 21:57               ` Al Viro
2005-09-13 23:10               ` Linus Torvalds
2005-09-14  1:47                 ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-14  1:52                   ` Al Viro
2005-09-14 14:37                   ` Bill Davidsen
2005-09-15  0:30                     ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-14  1:50                 ` Al Viro
2005-09-15  0:31                   ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-15  0:55                     ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-15  1:38                       ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-15  2:12                         ` Al Viro
2005-09-15  7:29                           ` Roland McGrath
2005-09-15  1:18                     ` Al Viro
2005-09-16  0:54                       ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-16  7:46                         ` Al Viro
2005-09-16 15:06                           ` Sripathi Kodi
2005-09-16 18:05                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-09-16 18:14                             ` Al Viro

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