[PATCH 00/58] LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Jun 5 20:53:50 UTC 2019


On Tue, 4 Jun 2019, John Johansen wrote:

> Yes, on Ubuntu & suse you can lauch lxd system containers with the
> container having a system policy bounding the container, and the container
> having its own apparmor policy namespace. So it loads and has its own
> policy that is enforced.
> 
> This allows for us to run older versions of ubuntu (say 16.04) on an
> 18.04 host, and have the 16.04 policy behave just as if it was the host.

How well does the LSM stacking scale to 100s or more containers?

> This approach won't be an option for the 19.10 release and we will be
> needing the full patchset. I should be able to provide some benchmark
> and testing data soon.

Great.

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James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>



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