docs,procfs: document /proc/PID/* access permission checks

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Add a paragraph explaining what sort of capabilities a process would need
to read procfs data for some other process.  Also mention that reading
data for its own process doesn't require any extra permissions.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250129001747.759990-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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