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

- From: Alexei Starovoitov \<hidden\>
- Date: 2015-06-12 23:38:33 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2015/06/4515131
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/06/4515090/t.md

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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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