Re: [PATCH] userns/capability: Add user namespace capability

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Am 19.10.2015 um 14:36 schrieb Yves-Alexis Perez:
> On dim., 2015-10-18 at 20:41 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
>> We shouldn't need a long-term solution.  Your concern is bugs.  After
>> some time surely we'll feel that we have achieved a stable solution?
> 
> But this is actually the whole point: we need a long term solution, because
> they will always be bug, whether in user namespaces or in others parts exposed
> by user namespaces. It's fine to fix them when we find them, but that still
> means they're exploitable even before we know about them. We still find bugs
> in code written years ago, it's quite certain there are bugs in current code.

You can replace the term "user namespace" with any other non-trivial kernel subsystem.
There will always be bugs.

Thanks,
//richard
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