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Re: [PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field

From Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field
Date 2016-11-03 19:10 +0100
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 10:12:55AM -0600, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Lafcadio Wluiki <wluikil@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > (Third, rebased submission, since first two submissions yielded no replies.)
>> >
>> > This adds a new per-task hidepid= flag that is honored by procfs when
>> > presenting /proc to the user, in addition to the existing hidepid= mount
>> > option. So far, hidepid= was exclusively a per-pidns setting. Locking
>> > down a set of processes so that they cannot see other user's processes
>> > without affecting the rest of the system thus currently requires
>> > creation of a private PID namespace, with all the complexity it brings,
>> > including maintaining a stub init process as PID 1 and losing the
>> > ability to see processes of the same user on the rest of the system.
> [...]
>> Since this adds a new prctl interface, it's best to Cc linux-arch
>> (which I added now).
>
> Please also CC linux-api for the next iteration, since this is a new
> userspace-facing API.

Oops, thank you. I meant linux-api, not linux-arch. :P

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Nexus Security

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[PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Lafcadio Wluiki <wluikil@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 16:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-11-03 17:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid=  field Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-11-03 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-11-03 19:10 +0100
  Re: [2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-11-03 19:30 +0100
    Re: [2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Lafcadio Wluiki <wluikil@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 21:30 +0100
    Re: [2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task procfs hidepid= field Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-11-03 21:40 +0100
      Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: [2/2] procfs/tasks: add a simple per-task  procfs hidepid= field Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-11-03 21:50 +0100

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