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Message-ID: <20171110044645.GA3694@mail.hallyn.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 22:46:46 -0600
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar (महेश बंडेवार) <maheshb@...gle.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>,
	Boris Lukashev <blukashev@...pervictus.com>,
	Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>,
	Mahesh Bandewar <mahesh@...dewar.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel-hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH resend 2/2] userns: control
 capabilities of some user namespaces

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> single sandbox.  I am not at all certain that the capabilities is the
> proper place to limit code reachability.

Right, I keep having this gut feeling that there is another way we
should be doing that.  Maybe based on ksplice or perf, or maybe more
based on subsystems.  And I hope someone pursues that.  But I can't put
my finger on it, and meanwhile the capability checks obviously *are* in
fact gates...

-serge

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