From 06615bed60c1fb7c37adddb75bdc80da873b5edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 16:20:07 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] net: Verify permission to link_net in newlink When applicable verify that the caller has permisson to the underlying network namespace for a newly created network device. Similary checks exist for the network namespace a network device will be created in. Fixes: 317f4810e45e ("rtnl: allow to create device with IFLA_LINK_NETNSID set") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index b237959..2c49355 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -2134,6 +2134,9 @@ replay: err = -EINVAL; goto out; } + err = -EPERM; + if (!netlink_ns_capable(skb, link_net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + goto out; } dev = rtnl_create_link(link_net ? : dest_net, ifname, -- 2.7.4