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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-07-26 01:13:20 -0700
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-11-20 04:17:42 -0800
commit142e1d1d5f088e7a38659daca6e84a730967774a (patch)
treee2297a9a77f55bb15a566979c9c5658cff4737f8 /kernel
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userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.
- Push the permission check from the core setns syscall into the setns install methods where the user namespace of the target namespace can be determined, and used in a ns_capable call. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/nsproxy.c3
-rw-r--r--kernel/utsname.c7
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index a214e0e9035f..4357a0a7d17d 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -242,9 +242,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setns, int, fd, int, nstype)
struct file *file;
int err;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
- return -EPERM;
-
file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
if (IS_ERR(file))
return PTR_ERR(file);
diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index 679d97a5d3fd..4a9362f9325d 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -102,8 +102,13 @@ static void utsns_put(void *ns)
put_uts_ns(ns);
}
-static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
+static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
{
+ struct uts_namespace *ns = new;
+
+ if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ return -EPERM;
+
get_uts_ns(ns);
put_uts_ns(nsproxy->uts_ns);
nsproxy->uts_ns = ns;