From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-f54.google.com ([209.85.218.54]:33649 "EHLO mail-oi0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932285AbcDVPjf (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2016 11:39:35 -0400 Received: by mail-oi0-f54.google.com with SMTP id r78so120780010oie.0 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2016 08:39:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Seth Forshee To: "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexander Viro Cc: Serge Hallyn , Richard Weinberger , Austin S Hemmelgarn , Miklos Szeredi , Pavel Tikhomirov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Seth Forshee Subject: [PATCH v3 16/21] fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb() Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2016 10:38:33 -0500 Message-Id: <1461339521-123191-17-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1461339521-123191-1-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> References: <1461339521-123191-1-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Superblock level remounts are currently restricted to global CAP_SYS_ADMIN, as is the path for changing the root mount to read only on umount. Loosen both of these permission checks to also allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in any namespace which is privileged towards the userns which originally mounted the filesystem. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Serge Hallyn --- fs/namespace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 0ad8e4a4f50b..575e3f8b34fd 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1510,7 +1510,7 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, int flags) * Special case for "unmounting" root ... * we just try to remount it readonly. */ - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; down_write(&sb->s_umount); if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) @@ -2207,7 +2207,7 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int flags, int mnt_flags, down_write(&sb->s_umount); if (flags & MS_BIND) err = change_mount_flags(path->mnt, flags); - else if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + else if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) err = -EPERM; else err = do_remount_sb(sb, flags, data, 0); -- 1.9.1