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Message-ID: <20160123004449.GB23632@ubuntumail>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:44:49 +0000
From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Robert Święcki <robert@...ecki.net>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl: allow CLONE_NEWUSER to be disabled
Quoting Kees Cook (keescook@...omium.org):
> 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?
Oh, sorry - as for the name of it, what is the alternative you are proposing?
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