From 3486740a4f32a6a466f5ac931654d154790ba648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:43:17 -0700 Subject: userns: security: make capabilities relative to the user namespace - Introduce ns_capable to test for a capability in a non-default user namespace. - Teach cap_capable to handle capabilities in a non-default user namespace. The motivation is to get to the unprivileged creation of new namespaces. It looks like this gets us 90% of the way there, with only potential uid confusion issues left. I still need to handle getting all caps after creation but otherwise I think I have a good starter patch that achieves all of your goals. Changelog: 11/05/2010: [serge] add apparmor 12/14/2010: [serge] fix capabilities to created user namespaces Without this, if user serge creates a user_ns, he won't have capabilities to the user_ns he created. THis is because we were first checking whether his effective caps had the caps he needed and returning -EPERM if not, and THEN checking whether he was the creator. Reverse those checks. 12/16/2010: [serge] security_real_capable needs ns argument in !security case 01/11/2011: [serge] add task_ns_capable helper 01/11/2011: [serge] add nsown_capable() helper per Bastian Blank suggestion 02/16/2011: [serge] fix a logic bug: the root user is always creator of init_user_ns, but should not always have capabilities to it! Fix the check in cap_capable(). 02/21/2011: Add the required user_ns parameter to security_capable, fixing a compile failure. 02/23/2011: Convert some macros to functions as per akpm comments. Some couldn't be converted because we can't easily forward-declare them (they are inline if !SECURITY, extern if SECURITY). Add a current_user_ns function so we can use it in capability.h without #including cred.h. Move all forward declarations together to the top of the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section, and use kernel-doc format. 02/23/2011: Per dhowells, clean up comment in cap_capable(). 02/23/2011: Per akpm, remove unreachable 'return -EPERM' in cap_capable. (Original written and signed off by Eric; latest, modified version acked by him) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export current_user_ns() for ecryptfs] [serge.hallyn@canonical.com: remove unneeded extra argument in selinux's task_has_capability] Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: David Howells Cc: James Morris Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cred.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/cred.c') diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 2343c132..5557b55 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -741,6 +741,12 @@ int set_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_create_files_as); +struct user_namespace *current_user_ns(void) +{ + return _current_user_ns(); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(current_user_ns); + #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS bool creds_are_invalid(const struct cred *cred) -- cgit v1.1