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userns: Allow the userns root to mount of devpts
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- The context in which devpts is mounted has no effect on the creation
  of ptys as the /dev/ptmx interface has been used by unprivileged
  users for many years.

- Only support unprivileged mounts in combination with the newinstance
  option to ensure that mounting of /dev/pts in a user namespace will
  not allow the options of an existing mount of devpts to be modified.

- Create /dev/pts/ptmx as the root user in the user namespace that
  mounts devpts so that it's permissions to be changed.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
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ebiederm committed Jan 27, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -243,6 +243,13 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)
struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
kuid_t root_uid;
kgid_t root_gid;

root_uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), 0);
root_gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), 0);
if (!uid_valid(root_uid) || !gid_valid(root_gid))
return -EINVAL;

mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -273,6 +280,8 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)

mode = S_IFCHR|opts->ptmxmode;
init_special_inode(inode, mode, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 2));
inode->i_uid = root_uid;
inode->i_gid = root_gid;

d_add(dentry, inode);

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -438,6 +447,12 @@ static struct dentry *devpts_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);

/* Require newinstance for all user namespace mounts to ensure
* the mount options are not changed.
*/
if ((current_user_ns() != &init_user_ns) && !opts.newinstance)
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);

if (opts.newinstance)
s = sget(fs_type, NULL, set_anon_super, flags, NULL);
else
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -491,6 +506,9 @@ static struct file_system_type devpts_fs_type = {
.name = "devpts",
.mount = devpts_mount,
.kill_sb = devpts_kill_sb,
#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
.fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT | FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT,
#endif
};

/*
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