[PATCH v3 20/21] fuse: Restrict allow_other to the superblock's namespace or a descendant

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Fri Apr 22 08:38:37 PDT 2016


Unprivileged users are normally restricted from mounting with the
allow_other option by system policy, but this could be bypassed
for a mount done with user namespace root permissions. In such
cases allow_other should not allow users outside the userns
to access the mount as doing so would give the unprivileged user
the ability to manipulate processes it would otherwise be unable
to manipulate. Restrict allow_other to apply to users in the same
userns used at mount or a descendant of that namespace.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi at redhat.com>
---
 fs/fuse/dir.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index ecba75bf6640..1a6c5af49608 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -1015,7 +1015,7 @@ int fuse_allow_current_process(struct fuse_conn *fc)
 	const struct cred *cred;
 
 	if (fc->flags & FUSE_ALLOW_OTHER)
-		return 1;
+		return current_in_userns(fc->user_ns);
 
 	cred = current_cred();
 	if (uid_eq(cred->euid, fc->user_id) &&
-- 
1.9.1




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