userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 07:50:47 +0000 (00:50 -0700)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:17:41 +0000 (04:17 -0800)
If an unprivileged user has the appropriate capabilities in their
current user namespace allow the creation of new namespaces.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
kernel/nsproxy.c

index 7f8b051..a214e0e 100644 (file)
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ out_ns:
 int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 {
        struct nsproxy *old_ns = tsk->nsproxy;
+       struct user_namespace *user_ns = task_cred_xxx(tsk, user_ns);
        struct nsproxy *new_ns;
        int err = 0;
 
@@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
                                CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET)))
                return 0;
 
-       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+       if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
                err = -EPERM;
                goto out;
        }
@@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags,
                               CLONE_NEWNET | CLONE_NEWPID)))
                return 0;
 
-       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+       if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
                return -EPERM;
 
        *new_nsp = create_new_namespaces(unshare_flags, current,