Messages in this thread | | | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] fs/proc: apply the time namespace offset to /proc/stat btime | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:28:37 +0100 |
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On Mon, Oct 19 2020 at 21:52, Michael Weiß wrote:
> '/proc/stat' provides the field 'btime' which states the time stamp of > system boot in seconds. In case of time namespaces, the offset to the > boot time stamp was not applied earlier. However, in container > runtimes which utilize time namespaces to virtualize boottime of a > container, this leaks information about the host system boot time.
Not sure if that qualifies as a leak. The point is that it confuses the tasks which are in a different time universe.
Thanks,
tglx
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