From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Shea Levy <shea@shealevy.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Setting FS_USERNS_MOUNT in btrfs_fs_type.fs_flags
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:54:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140917035448.GZ7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140917030500.GD6185@nixos.hsd1.nh.comcast.net>
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:05:00PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> What work would be required to mark btrfs_fs_type with FS_USERNS_MOUNT
> so that btrfs images can be mounted by unprivileged users within a user
> namespace (along with something like [1])? I'd like to be able to create
> disk images without having to start a VM (and --rootdir isn't flexible
> enough because I want to make subvolumes).
Er... Which is to say, you have an audit of btrfs code making sure that
it can cope with arbitrary image hand-crafted by potential attacker?
Because without that FS_USERNS_MOUNT could open one hell of security hole;
things like user being able to execute an arbitrary code in kernel mode,
etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-17 3:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-17 3:05 Setting FS_USERNS_MOUNT in btrfs_fs_type.fs_flags Shea Levy
2014-09-17 3:54 ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-09-17 16:12 ` Zach Brown
2014-09-17 20:31 ` Shea Levy
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