diff --git a/profiles/apparmor.d/tunables/kernelvars b/profiles/apparmor.d/tunables/kernelvars
index 7933c522c..2d1a16300 100644
--- a/profiles/apparmor.d/tunables/kernelvars
+++ b/profiles/apparmor.d/tunables/kernelvars
@@ -20,3 +20,11 @@
 
 #A pattern for pids that can appear
 @{pids}=@{pid}
+
+# Placeholder for user id until kernel var is implemented to match
+# current user of the confined application.
+# Values are 0...4,294,967,295 (32-bit unsigned, 10 digits).
+@{uid}={[0-9],[1-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9],[1-4][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]}
+
+#same pattern as @{uid} for now
+@{uids}=@{uid}