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Message-ID: <BANLkTi=vdCDnD-_Ut0si=dZ=zcDc_yiU0A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:23:28 +0900
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/5 v4] procfs: add hidepid= and gid= mount options
2011/6/20 James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
>
>> > Can you provide evidence that this is a useful feature? e.g. examples of
>> > exploits / techniques which would be _usefully_ hampered or blocked.
>>
>> First, most of these files are usefull in sense of statistics gathering
>> and debugging. There is no reason to provide this information to the
>> world.
>>
>> Second, yes, it blocks one source of information used in timing attacks,
>> just use reading the counters as more or less precise time measurement
>> when actual timing measurements are not precise enough.
>
> Can you provide concrete examples?
Vasiliy,
I'm now stand aside James. I mean, if we don't understand your usecase
clearly. we can't gurantee to don't break the feature in the future. So,
we strongly hope to understand it.
Moreover, _now_ I haven't understand your concrete usecase, and then
_I_ can't review and be convinced your code. Please please avoid one line
answer as far as possible, please provide us more information.
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