To make the no_new_privs discussion more concrete, here is an updated series that is actually useful. It adds PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS with the same semantics as before (plus John Johansen's AppArmor fix and with improved bisectability). It then allows some unshare flags and chroot (sometimes) when no_new_privs is set. The unprivileged chroot could be quite useful, even though it's rather constrained for now. I think that blocking setresuid, setuid, and capset in no_new_privs mode will make this a little less useful. Comments are welcome. For the git-inclined, this series is here: https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/luto/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/security/no_new_privs/patch_v2 Test it like this: ---- begin test case #include <sys/prctl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <errno.h> #define PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS 35 #define PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS 36 int main() { int nnp = prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 0, 0, 0, 0); if (nnp == -EINVAL) { printf("Failed!\n"); return 1; } printf("nnp was %d\n", nnp); if (prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0) != 0) { printf("Failed!\n"); return 1; } nnp = prctl(PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 0, 0, 0, 0); if (nnp == -EINVAL) { printf("Failed!\n"); return 1; } printf("nnp is %d\n", nnp); printf("here goes...\n"); execlp("bash", "bash", NULL); printf("Failed to exec bash\n"); return 1; } ---- end test case Andy Lutomirski (3): Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve from granting privs Allow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUTS and CLONE_NEWIPC with no_new_privs Allow unprivileged chroot when safe John Johansen (1): Fix apparmor for PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS fs/exec.c | 10 +++++++++- fs/open.c | 16 ++++++++++++++-- include/linux/prctl.h | 15 +++++++++++++++ include/linux/sched.h | 2 ++ include/linux/security.h | 1 + kernel/fork.c | 2 ++ kernel/nsproxy.c | 8 +++++++- kernel/sys.c | 10 ++++++++++ security/apparmor/domain.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ security/commoncap.c | 7 +++++-- security/selinux/hooks.c | 10 +++++++++- 11 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 1.7.7.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html