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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:03:39 +0100
From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 10/11] docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4"
and "subset=pidfs" options and new mount behavior
On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:29:23AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 7:06 AM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > index 99ca040e3f90..4741fd092f36 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> > @@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Table of Contents
> > 4 Configuring procfs
> > 4.1 Mount options
> >
> > + 5 Filesystem behavior
> > +
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Preface
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > @@ -2021,6 +2023,7 @@ The following mount options are supported:
> >
> > hidepid= Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode.
> > gid= Set the group authorized to learn processes information.
> > + subset= Show only the specified subset of procfs.
> >
> > hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all /proc/<pid>/ directories
> > (default).
> > @@ -2042,6 +2045,56 @@ information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated
> > privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether other users
> > run any program at all, etc.
> >
> > +hidepid=4 means that procfs should only contain /proc/<pid>/ directories
> > +that the caller can ptrace.
>
> I have a couple of minor nits here.
>
> First, perhaps we could stop using magic numbers and use words.
> hidepid=ptraceable is actually comprehensible, whereas hidepid=4
> requires looking up what '4' means.
Do you mean to add string aliases for the values?
hidepid=0 == hidepid=default
hidepid=1 == hidepid=restrict
hidepid=2 == hidepid=ownonly
hidepid=4 == hidepid=ptraceable
Something like that ?
> Second, there is PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH and PTRACE_MODE_READ. Which is it?
This is PTRACE_MODE_READ.
> > +
> > gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise
> > prohibited by hidepid=. If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn
> > information about processes information, just add identd to this group.
>
> How is this better than just creating an entirely separate mount a
> different hidepid and a different gid owning it?
I'm not sure I understand the question. Now you cannot have two proc with
different hidepid in the same pid_namespace.
> In any event,
> usually gid= means that this gid is the group owner of inodes. Let's
> call it something different. gid_override_hidepid might be credible.
> But it's also really weird -- do different groups really see different
> contents when they read a directory?
If you use hidepid=2,gid=wheel options then the user is not in the wheel
group will see only their processes and the user in the wheel group will
see whole tree. The gid= is a kind of whitelist for hidepid=1|2.
--
Rgrds, legion
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