On Tue, 24 May 2022 at 06:36, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I still think that tools like perf being able to provide good tracing > data is going to hurt due to this cautious rejection of access, but > with Kconfig we at least give an option for users to opt out of it. > WDYT? I'd rather use a module option for this, always defaulting to off . Then sysadmin then can choose to turn this protection off if necessary. This would effectively be the same as "user_allow_other" option in /etc/fuse.conf, which fusermount interprets but the kernel doesn't. Thanks, Miklos