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| author | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@microsoft.com> | 2021-11-16 23:44:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2021-11-17 11:53:03 +0100 |
| commit | cc970310a47d553c1232be579caf1ae2a54640db (patch) | |
| tree | afeb5cff9b42588f84482b1ae5d03e62b1627ebe /docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md | |
| parent | ci: run codeql on PRs from Dependabot (diff) | |
| download | systemd-cc970310a47d553c1232be579caf1ae2a54640db.tar.xz systemd-cc970310a47d553c1232be579caf1ae2a54640db.zip | |
CONTAINER_INTERFACE: clarify that /proc/sys can be writable with namespacing
When user and network namespaces are enabled, the kernel
makes the global keys read-only, and makes the namespaced
ones available for the guest already.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md b/docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md index 54b94e2342..9ca991cab5 100644 --- a/docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md +++ b/docs/CONTAINER_INTERFACE.md @@ -22,10 +22,12 @@ manager, please consider supporting the following interfaces. (that file overrides whatever is pre-initialized by the container manager). 2. Make sure to pre-mount `/proc/`, `/sys/`, and `/sys/fs/selinux/` before - invoking systemd, and mount `/proc/sys/`, `/sys/`, and `/sys/fs/selinux/` - read-only in order to prevent the container from altering the host kernel's - configuration settings. (As a special exception, if your container has - network namespaces enabled, feel free to make `/proc/sys/net/` writable). + invoking systemd, and mount `/sys/`, `/sys/fs/selinux/` and `/proc/sys/` + read-only (the latter via e.g. a read-only bind mount on itself) in order + to prevent the container from altering the host kernel's configuration + settings. (As a special exception, if your container has network namespaces + enabled, feel free to make `/proc/sys/net/` writable. If it also has user, ipc, + uts and pid namespaces enabled, the entire `/proc/sys` can be left writable). systemd and various other subsystems (such as the SELinux userspace) have been modified to behave accordingly when these file systems are read-only. (It's OK to mount `/sys/` as `tmpfs` btw, and only mount a subset of its |