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>
Sun, 15 Oct 2017 06:57:36 +0000 (07:57 +0100)
commit65e9af4c1ecbdc57cb75878ac5ba168f514a6068
tree5c06c837f4463d2b1fb8593fd1e74a48a6a71405
parente04fc9b185663ba164e19d9230b99e50824c6573
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