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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1][RFC] do not sys_reboot when not in init_pid_ns
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 15:01:34 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081104210134.GA6238@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4910B34B.7070901-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

Quoting Daniel Lezcano (dlezcano-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org):
> Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> > Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be better to simply remove CAP_SYS_BOOT from containers
> > until sys_reboot emits some signal to userspace to restart/halt the
> > container? (This is what we do in Linux-VServer.)
> 
> Ok, I will try, thanks.
> 
> BTW, isn't possible that a process gave CAP_SYS_BOOT capability again to 
>   himself and being able to shutdown the host ? I guess I should remove 
> CAP_SETPCAP too, no ?

No, remove it from your bounding set.  You can never add bits back to
that set.  prctl(PR_CAPBSET_DROP, CAP_SYS_BOOT);

-serge

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-04 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-02  0:00 [patch 1/1][RFC] do not sys_reboot when not in init_pid_ns Daniel Lezcano
     [not found] ` <490CEDA0.6020800-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-02  0:16   ` Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
2008-11-03 18:59   ` Dave Hansen
     [not found] ` <54333.2001:16d8:ff15:101:219:d2ff:fed5:8193.1225584965.squirrel@intranet>
2008-11-02 23:04   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-11-04 20:40   ` Daniel Lezcano
     [not found]     ` <4910B34B.7070901-NmTC/0ZBporQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-04 21:01       ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
     [not found]         ` <20081104210134.GA6238-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-11-04 21:39           ` Daniel Lezcano
2008-11-04 22:14           ` Daniel Lezcano

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