userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.

- Push the permission check from the core setns syscall into the setns install methods where the user namespace of the target namespace can be determined, and used in a ns_capable call. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
ambv · Nov 20, 2012 · 142e1d1 · 142e1d1
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diff --git a/ipc/namespace.c b/ipc/namespace.c
@@ -161,8 +161,12 @@ static void ipcns_put(void *ns)
 	return put_ipc_ns(ns);
 }
 
-static int ipcns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
+static int ipcns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
 {
+	struct ipc_namespace *ns = new;
+	if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	/* Ditch state from the old ipc namespace */
 	exit_sem(current);
 	put_ipc_ns(nsproxy->ipc_ns);

diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -242,9 +242,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setns, int, fd, int, nstype)
 	struct file *file;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
 	if (IS_ERR(file))
 		return PTR_ERR(file);

diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -102,8 +102,13 @@ static void utsns_put(void *ns)
 	put_uts_ns(ns);
 }
 
-static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
+static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
 {
+	struct uts_namespace *ns = new;
+
+	if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	get_uts_ns(ns);
 	put_uts_ns(nsproxy->uts_ns);
 	nsproxy->uts_ns = ns;

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -630,8 +630,13 @@ static void netns_put(void *ns)
 
 static int netns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
 {
+	struct net *net = ns;
+
+	if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
 	put_net(nsproxy->net_ns);
-	nsproxy->net_ns = get_net(ns);
+	nsproxy->net_ns = get_net(net);
 	return 0;
 }