Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Make it easier to harden /proc/

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 16 March 2011 21:52:49 Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 16 März 2011, 21:45:45 schrieb Arnd Bergmann:
> > How does this interact with the per-namespace sysctls that Eric
> > Biederman added a few years ago?
> 
> Do you mean CONFIG_{UTS, UPC, USER, NET,}_NS?

I mean specifically e51b6ba07 "sysctl: Infrastructure for per namespace sysctls"
and related patches. I've looked a bit closer there and it seems that
this is only used for network namespaces at the moment.

> > I had expected that any dangerous sysctl would not be visible in
> > an unpriviledge container anyway.
> 
> No way.
> That's why it's currently a very good idea to mount /proc/ read-only into a container.

Ok, I see. 

	Arnd
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