umount: Disallow unprivileged mount force
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Sat, 4 Oct 2014 21:44:03 +0000 (14:44 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:00:49 +0000 (10:00 -0800)
commit5f20adeafce6d4a6d8dd132acddfb4edf57f08de
tree425af809cf6390e0edfb16903e3db1faf9a7df1d
parentebdd0940bb83aa0bf16acbbf3ea7b89d325880cc
umount: Disallow unprivileged mount force

commit b2f5d4dc38e034eecb7987e513255265ff9aa1cf upstream.

Forced unmount affects not just the mount namespace but the underlying
superblock as well.  Restrict forced unmount to the global root user
for now.  Otherwise it becomes possible a user in a less privileged
mount namespace to force the shutdown of a superblock of a filesystem
in a more privileged mount namespace, allowing a DOS attack on root.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/namespace.c