linux-kernel - [PATCH v9 6/8] docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4" and "subset=pidfs" options and new mount behavior

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Date:   Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:25:21 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH v9 6/8] docs: proc: add documentation for "hidepid=4" and "subset=pidfs" options and new mount behavior

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index 99ca040e3f90..4741fd092f36 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ Table of Contents
   4	Configuring procfs
   4.1	Mount options
 
+  5	Filesystem behavior
+
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Preface
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -2021,6 +2023,7 @@ The following mount options are supported:
 
 	hidepid=	Set /proc/<pid>/ access mode.
 	gid=		Set the group authorized to learn processes information.
+	subset=		Show only the specified subset of procfs.
 
 hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all /proc/<pid>/ directories
 (default).
@@ -2042,6 +2045,56 @@ information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated
 privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether other users
 run any program at all, etc.
 
+hidepid=4 means that procfs should only contain /proc/<pid>/ directories
+that the caller can ptrace.
+
 gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise
 prohibited by hidepid=.  If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn
 information about processes information, just add identd to this group.
+
+subset=pidfs hides all top level files and directories in the procfs that
+are not related to tasks.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+5 Filesystem behavior
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Originally, before the advent of pid namepsace, procfs was a global file
+system. It means that there was only one procfs instance in the system.
+
+When pid namespace was added, a separate procfs instance was mounted in
+each pid namespace. So, procfs mount options are global among all
+mountpoints within the same namespace.
+
+# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
+proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
+
+# strace -e mount mount -o hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
+mount("proc", "/tmp/proc", "proc", 0, "hidepid=1") = 0
++++ exited with 0 +++
+
+# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
+proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
+proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
+
+and only after remounting procfs mount options will change at all
+mountpoints.
+
+# mount -o remount,hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
+
+# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
+proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
+proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
+
+This behavior is different from the behavior of other filesystems.
+
+The new procfs behavior is more like other filesystems. Each procfs mount
+creates a new procfs instance. Mount options affect own procfs instance.
+It means that it became possible to have several procfs instances
+displaying tasks with different filtering options in one pid namespace.
+
+# mount -o hidepid=2 -t proc proc /proc
+# mount -o hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
+# grep ^proc /proc/mounts
+proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
+proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
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