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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:59:59 +0000
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, Robert
Święcki <robert@...ecki.net>, "Serge E. Hallyn"
<serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Al Viro
<viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, "Eric W.
Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>, Alexander Potapenko
<glider@...gle.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Sasha Levin
<sasha.levin@...cle.com>, "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org"
<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: allow CLONE_NEWUSER
to be disabled
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 15:00 -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Robert Święcki <robert@...ecki.net> wrote:
> > 2016-01-22 23:50 GMT+01:00 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>:
> >
> > > > Seems that Debian and some older Ubuntu versions are already using
> > > >
> > > > $ sysctl -a | grep usern
> > > > kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone = 0
> > > >
> > > > Shall we be consistent wit it?
> > >
> > > Oh! I didn't see that on systems I checked. On which version did you find that?
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux bc1 4.3.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.3.3-5~bpo8+1
> > (2016-01-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > $ cat /etc/debian_version
> > 8.2
>
> Ah-ha, Debian only, though it looks like this was just committed to
> the Ubuntu kernel tree too:
>
>
> > IIRC some older kernels delivered with Ubuntu Precise were also using
> > it (but maybe I'm mistaken)
>
> I don't see it there.
>
> I think my patch is more complete, but I'm happy to change the name if
> this sysctl has already started to enter the global consciousness. ;)
>
> Serge, Ben, what do you think?
I agree that using the '_restrict' suffix for new restrictions makes
sense. I also don't think that a third possible value for
kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone would would be understandable.
I would probably make kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone a wrapper for
kernel.userns_restrict in Debian, then deprecate and eventually remove
it.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
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