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Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:33:59 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5 v4] procfs: introduce hidepid=, hidenet=, gid= mount
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Arnd,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 13:40 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> E.g. if all the sensitive information
> you are hiding in procfs is still available through netlink, your patch
> is pointless.

Ah, I've complitely missed this piece of a puzzle! :( With procfs, proc
connector and taskstats (probably, something else) should be restricted
too.

Thank you very much for this notice!

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Vasiliy Kulikov
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