Re: [RFC 0/5 v4] procfs: introduce hidepid=, hidenet=, gid= mount options

[Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:45 +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> More generic solution (I'm not suggesting it, but merely discussing)
> would use some user-supplied set of files to restrict access to (or,
> better, the set of allowed files because white list is almost always
> better than black list).  Maybe this one:
> 
>     mount -t proc -o "pid_allow=exe,status,comm,oom_*" proc /proc
> 
> And without pid_allow it would behave like pid_allow=*.

>  "pid_allow=."
> would deny access to the whole /proc/PID.

I mean "pid_allow=", of course.

> This would be a bit inconsistent with current permissions because e.g.
> if use pid_allow=environ then environ file would not be accessible
> because of posix permissions.  Hierarchical mode (pid_allow=fd/1) is not
> allowed too.

For hierarchical mode: attr_allowed, tgid_allowed, tid_allowed.


Thanks,

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