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)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Sun, 4 Jun 2017 02:03:01 +0000 (02:03 +0000)
commit05549f5fd4398deb5ea669fb1739f9af43bf423e
tree6a81a6a77e636bc82b89fbd109473b01831f59e3
parentae4828627bfe41d89892957b3819202b3cc2435b
add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default

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]

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