Kernel commit ed5d44d42c95 ("selinux: Implement userns_create hook")
seems to just introduce a new functionality, but given that SELinux
implements a form of mandatory access control, introducing the new
permission breaks any application (shipping with SELinux policies)
that needs to create user namespaces, such as passt and pasta for
sandboxing purposes.
Add the new 'allow' rules. They appear to be backward compatible,
kernel-wise, and the policy now requires the new 'user_namespace'
class to build, but that's something distributions already ship.
Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
In practical terms, passt doesn't benefit from the additional
protection offered by the AGPL over the GPL, because it's not
suitable to be executed over a computer network.
Further, restricting the distribution under the version 3 of the GPL
wouldn't provide any practical advantage either, as long as the passt
codebase is concerned, and might cause unnecessary compatibility
dilemmas.
Change licensing terms to the GNU General Public License Version 2,
or any later version, with written permission from all current and
past contributors, namely: myself, David Gibson, Laine Stump, Andrea
Bolognani, Paul Holzinger, Richard W.M. Jones, Chris Kuhn, Florian
Weimer, Giuseppe Scrivano, Stefan Hajnoczi, and Vasiliy Ulyanov.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
