Mounting Overlayfs in a user namespace

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Is it possible to mount an Overlayfs filesystem as an unprivileged user in a user namespace in Linux kernels >4.3.3; it seems that the fix to this vulnerability has blocked this functionality entirely.



When I create a new user namespace with clone(), passing the CLONE_NEWNS flag and attempt to invoke mount with an overlayfs filesystem, I'm given permission denied. I can mount any other filesystem though.



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    Is it possible to mount an Overlayfs filesystem as an unprivileged user in a user namespace in Linux kernels >4.3.3; it seems that the fix to this vulnerability has blocked this functionality entirely.



    When I create a new user namespace with clone(), passing the CLONE_NEWNS flag and attempt to invoke mount with an overlayfs filesystem, I'm given permission denied. I can mount any other filesystem though.



    Is there a way to work around this/am I missing something?










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      Is it possible to mount an Overlayfs filesystem as an unprivileged user in a user namespace in Linux kernels >4.3.3; it seems that the fix to this vulnerability has blocked this functionality entirely.



      When I create a new user namespace with clone(), passing the CLONE_NEWNS flag and attempt to invoke mount with an overlayfs filesystem, I'm given permission denied. I can mount any other filesystem though.



      Is there a way to work around this/am I missing something?










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      Is it possible to mount an Overlayfs filesystem as an unprivileged user in a user namespace in Linux kernels >4.3.3; it seems that the fix to this vulnerability has blocked this functionality entirely.



      When I create a new user namespace with clone(), passing the CLONE_NEWNS flag and attempt to invoke mount with an overlayfs filesystem, I'm given permission denied. I can mount any other filesystem though.



      Is there a way to work around this/am I missing something?







      linux mount overlayfs userns






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          Its not allowed to mount overlayfs within unprivileged usernamespace. Not sure but if you can try a bind mount of the overlayfs into the usernamespace.






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            Its not allowed to mount overlayfs within unprivileged usernamespace. Not sure but if you can try a bind mount of the overlayfs into the usernamespace.






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                Its not allowed to mount overlayfs within unprivileged usernamespace. Not sure but if you can try a bind mount of the overlayfs into the usernamespace.






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