Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: lwtunnel: expose read-only sysctl nf_hooks_lwtunnel for non init-netns

Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.netfilter.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <[email protected]> wrote:
> Expose nf_hooks_lwtunnel sysctl with 0444 mode from non init-netns
> instead of 0644, sashiko reports this is exposing a global static branch
> to modification by unprivileged users.

No objection but I find this report weird.  Why is that an issue in the
first place?

> Fixes: a2225e0250c5 ("netfilter: move the sysctl nf_hooks_lwtunnel into the netfilter core")

AFAICS it was exposed before this too, just via conntrack module and not the core.
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