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>
Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:38:19 +0000 (17:38 +0200)
commit2ae0348695ccf774b01086d820151042a0aa2a30
treef070f25a5c0d0c33f8761d8fdc71d03935fc5cd0
parent889afb0e92a6610de9277a0e95ad9c87a90d2947
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