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, 26 Sep 2019 12:19:06 +0000 (13:19 +0100)
commit563653039d4f6ec40c777c42277c56b649044c09
treeeba3bfc153d95eb02ae495211e29cf04a30c23a3
parentfa46e9171cbe31a3b711f28c618f2c31a462c81e
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