summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/lib
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2025-01-28 16:17:47 -0800
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-03-16 22:30:47 -0700
commit87ad827a2780b8abe08e64a03553e4898a06b9fc (patch)
tree6d9b9b1377801a9e9c6b856f8cde80e93bd843bd /lib
parent541da9f87ddbc68b183a6345284d55441e6d18ca (diff)
docs,procfs: document /proc/PID/* access permission checks
Add a paragraph explaining what sort of capabilities a process would need to read procfs data for some other process. Also mention that reading data for its own process doesn't require any extra permissions. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129001747.759990-1-andrii@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions