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authorAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>2021-03-10 19:14:48 +0100
committerAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>2021-03-12 17:18:28 +0100
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docs: proc: add documentation about relaxing visibility restrictionspatchset/proc-revealing/v5
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
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@@ -2182,7 +2182,8 @@ are not related to tasks.
If user namespaces are in use, the kernel additionally checks the instances of
procfs available to the mounter and will not allow procfs to be mounted if:
- 1. This mount is not fully visible.
+ 1. This mount is not fully visible unless the new procfs is going to be
+ mounted with subset=pid option.
a. It's root directory is not the root directory of the filesystem.
b. If any file or non-empty procfs directory is hidden by another mount.