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>
Sat, 7 Jun 2025 12:21:10 +0000 (14:21 +0200)
commitb708218e1d6fa43e27d6a10b93d697ae242804f0
tree32c1b95d9779f3137fd431d6e304b8bec6af0aac
parent33dd9557bc767d7359b5543eecf7c9564819d0a1
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