proc: use human-readable values for hidepid
authorAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:10:56 +0000 (16:10 +0200)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:51:22 +0000 (10:51 -0500)
commit1c6c4d112e81a919d4ea83ec6cbc2f55203217fd
treeefb0c32680a11f7c22a2f8a819298ca0cef92be5
parent37e7647a7212336d8a3a34db2e7f7345a47ca7b3
proc: use human-readable values for hidepid

The hidepid parameter values are becoming more and more and it becomes
difficult to remember what each new magic number means.

Backward compatibility is preserved since it is possible to specify
numerical value for the hidepid parameter. This does not break the
fsconfig since it is not possible to specify a numerical value through
it. All numeric values are converted to a string. The type
FSCONFIG_SET_BINARY cannot be used to indicate a numerical value.

Selftest has been added to verify this behavior.

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
fs/proc/inode.c
fs/proc/root.c
tools/testing/selftests/proc/.gitignore
tools/testing/selftests/proc/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/proc/proc-fsconfig-hidepid.c [new file with mode: 0644]