Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] bpf: introduce current->pid, tgid, uid, gid, comm accessors

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Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
Date
2015-06-12 23:38:33
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Andy Lutomirski, 2015-06-12
On 6/12/15 4:25 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
It's a dangerous tool.  Also, shouldn't the returned uid match the
namespace of the task that installed the probe, not the task that's
being probed?
so leaking info to unprivileged apps is the concern?
The whole thing is for root only as you know.
The non-root is still far away. Today root needs to see the whole
kernel. That was the goal from the beginning.
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