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>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:13:03 +0000 (11:13 +0100)
commitb4288b8ae597b3019cc6fc66e2f7a2abae7278b0
tree6e7c00fa8827adaf02311ffa06269bf4e2db4ce0
parentba5cef299855b809aab9b2c314391f5138bfd348
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