On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 01:27:21PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 13:49 +0200, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: > > Package: src:linux > > Version: 3.9.6-1 > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Hi, > > > > would it be possible to enable the CONFIG_USER_NS option? AFAICT as of > > v3.10 all > > the parts that needed converting have been converted. Is this correct? Are > > there > > any other related concerns? > > This is not correct; XFS has not been converted.
Oh right, I missed that.
> And there are likely many more privilege escalation bugs related to
> users creating their own user-namespaces that haven't yet been
> discovered. I am reluctant to enable it again at this stage without
> limiting its use to root by default.
There's no urgency. For the time being I can rebuild linux with the option
enabled (and xfs disabled), but at some point, once it gets mature enough, it
would be nice to have it enabled by default.
Cheers
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