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authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>2012-12-27 11:39:12 +0800
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2012-12-26 20:29:30 -0800
commit923c7538236564c46ee80c253a416705321f13e3 (patch)
treed57765040dc118a83f2a7c8892b1d9f051d4c5ff /kernel/sys.c
parent48c6d1217e3dc743e7d3ad9b9def8d4810d13a85 (diff)
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userns: Allow unprivileged reboot
In a container with its own pid namespace and user namespace, rebooting the system won't reboot the host, but terminate all the processes in it and thus have the container shutdown, so it's safe. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 265b376..24d1ef5 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -433,11 +433,12 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(reboot_mutex);
SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
void __user *, arg)
{
+ struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
char buffer[256];
int ret = 0;
/* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT))
+ if (!ns_capable(pid_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_BOOT))
return -EPERM;
/* For safety, we require "magic" arguments. */
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
* pid_namespace, the command is handled by reboot_pid_ns() which will
* call do_exit().
*/
- ret = reboot_pid_ns(task_active_pid_ns(current), cmd);
+ ret = reboot_pid_ns(pid_ns, cmd);
if (ret)
return ret;
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