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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 02/10] userns: Add per user namespace sysctls.
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:44:50 -0500

> User namespaces have enabled unprivileged users access to a lot more
> data structures and so to catch programs that go crazy we need a lot
> more limits. I believe some of those limits make sense per namespace.
> As it is easy in some cases to say any more than Y number of those
> per namespace is excessive. For example a limit of 1,000,000 ipv4
> routes per network namespaces is a sanity check as there are
> currently 621,649 ipv4 prefixes advertized in bgp.

When we give a new namespace to unprivileged users, we honestly should
make the sysctl settings we give to them become "limits". They can
further constrain the sysctl settings but may not raise them.

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