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authorKrister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>2017-01-21 04:49:11 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-01-24 20:10:51 +0300
commit4548b683b78137f8eadeb312b94e20bb0d4a7141 (patch)
tree8b285d141f533807625336c4524411bf31d48d9f /Documentation/networking
parentd140199af510ad4749dc5e38b7922135258ba5fd (diff)
downloadlinux-4548b683b78137f8eadeb312b94e20bb0d4a7141.tar.xz
Introduce a sysctl that modifies the value of PROT_SOCK.
Add net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start, which is a per namespace sysctl that denotes the first unprivileged inet port in the namespace. To disable all privileged ports set this to zero. It also checks for overlap with the local port range. The privileged and local range may not overlap. The use case for this change is to allow containerized processes to bind to priviliged ports, but prevent them from ever being allowed to modify their container's network configuration. The latter is accomplished by ensuring that the network namespace is not a child of the user namespace. This modification was needed to allow the container manager to disable a namespace's priviliged port restrictions without exposing control of the network namespace to processes in the user namespace. Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index aa1bb49f1dc6..17f2e7791042 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -822,6 +822,15 @@ ip_local_reserved_ports - list of comma separated ranges
Default: Empty
+ip_unprivileged_port_start - INTEGER
+ This is a per-namespace sysctl. It defines the first
+ unprivileged port in the network namespace. Privileged ports
+ require root or CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE in order to bind to them.
+ To disable all privileged ports, set this to 0. It may not
+ overlap with the ip_local_reserved_ports range.
+
+ Default: 1024
+
ip_nonlocal_bind - BOOLEAN
If set, allows processes to bind() to non-local IP addresses,
which can be quite useful - but may break some applications.