From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "\"Eric W. Beiderman" Subject: [PATCH 31/43] userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces. Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 22:15:27 -0700 Message-ID: <1333862139-31737-31-git-send-email-ebiederm@xmission.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Containers , Cyrill Gorcunov , linux-security-module-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Al Viro , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "Eric W. Biederman" To: Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org From: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman --- kernel/capability.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index cc5f071..493d972 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -429,12 +429,14 @@ bool nsown_capable(int cap) * targeted at it's own user namespace and that the given inode is owned * by the current user namespace or a child namespace. * - * Currently inodes can only be owned by the initial user namespace. + * Currently we check to see if an inode is owned by the current + * user namespace by seeing if the inode's owner maps into the + * current user namespace. * */ bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap) { struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns(); - return ns_capable(ns, cap) && (ns == &init_user_ns); + return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid); } -- 1.7.2.5