add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default
authorSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Fri, 31 May 2013 18:12:12 +0000 (19:12 +0100)
committerSalvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Wed, 16 Jul 2025 07:13:16 +0000 (09:13 +0200)
commit06657a71e836bc0155e0515d90157189e8e778e4
tree060769e6b1e9427bda8bf17b0eac1b91f7fa38a3
parente1d95b2dbbfce4edbce3a9048c19163c9ae511d7
add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default

Origin: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge%2Fubuntu-saucy.git;a=commit;h=5c847404dcb2e3195ad0057877e1422ae90892b8

add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default

This is a short-term patch.  Unprivileged use of CLONE_NEWUSER
is certainly an intended feature of user namespaces.  However
for at least saucy we want to make sure that, if any security
issues are found, we have a fail-safe.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
[bwh: Remove unneeded binary sysctl bits]
[bwh: Keep this sysctl, but change the default to enabled]

Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name add-sysctl-to-disallow-unprivileged-CLONE_NEWUSER-by-default.patch
kernel/fork.c
kernel/sysctl.c
kernel/user_namespace.c