[PATCH v2 13/18] fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb()

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Dec 7 13:21:22 PST 2015


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 <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 18fc58760aec..b00a765895e7 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))
@@ -2199,7 +2199,7 @@ 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




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