Re: [lxc-devel] Kernel bug? Setuid apps and user namespaces

[Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>]

Hi Eric,

(sorry, I don't seem to have the email I actually wanted to reply
to in my mbox, but it is
https://lists.linuxcontainers.org/pipermail/lxc-devel/2013-October/005857.html)

You'd said,
> Someone needs to read and think through all of the corner cases and see
> if we can ever have a time when task_dumpable is false but root in the
> container would not or should not be able to see everything.
> 
> In particular I am worried about the case of a setuid app calling setns,
> and entering a lesser privileged user namespace.  In my foggy mind that
> might be a security problem.  And there might be other similar crazy
> cases.

Can we make use of current->mm->exe_file->f_cred->user_ns?

So either always use 
make_kgid(current->mm->exe_file->f_cred->user_ns, 0)
instead of make_kuid(cred->user_ns, 0), or check that
(current->mm->exe_file->f_cred->user_ns == cred->user_ns)
and, if not, assume that the caller has done a setns?

-serge