tree 0e7ba0bc3b55c6570bb8f365c63fe326f963331c
parent d89107a11deba83ced46c140b52cf9584df68978
author Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> 1607351118 +0100
committer Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> 1607351118 +0100

ovl: unprivieged mounts

Enable unprivileged user namespace mounts of overlayfs.  Overlayfs's
permission model (*) ensures that the mounter itself cannot gain additional
privileges by the act of creating an overlayfs mount.

This feature request is coming from the "rootless" container crowd.

(*) Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt#Permission model

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>