Re: [PATCH] proc: change permission of /proc/self/mountstats to 0644

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:21:29AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> That is true only if there is a single mount namespace on your system.  The content of mountstats depends on each process's mount namespace.
> 
> However, I see that mounts and mountinfo, which also depend on a process's mount namespace, are all S_IRUGO.  I don't see a good reason mountstats should be different.

Could any of the counters be used as a covert channel?  Any leakage of
information related to RPCSEC_GSS that could helper attackers?

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