[systemd-devel] Delegate v1 cgroup controller permissions

Michal Koutný mkoutny at suse.com
Thu Jul 11 07:57:32 UTC 2019


On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 02:19:34PM +0200, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> Sorry, but there is not, it's not safe, as documented.

The doc [1] says:
> Think twice before delegating cgroup v1 controllers to less privileged
> containers. It’s not safe, you basically allow your containers to
> freeze the system with that and worse.

My search-fu is not strong enough and I'm interested in the details.
What controller settings can have such ramifications on the rest of the
system? 

Thanks,
Michal

[1] https://systemd.io/CGROUP_DELEGATION


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