Re: [PATCH 02/14] allow root in container to copy namespaces

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 22:13:37 EST


Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > From: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Othewise nested containers with user namespaces won't be possible.
> >
> > It's true that user namespaces are not yet fully isolated, but for
> > that same reason there are far worse things that root in a child
> > user ns can do. Spawning a child user ns is not in itself bad.
> >
> > This patch also allows setns for root in a container:
> > @Eric Biederman: are there gotchas in allowing setns from child
> > userns?
>
> Yes. We need to ensure that the target namespaces are namespaces
> that have been created in from user_namespace or from a child of this
> user_namespace.
>
> Aka we need to ensure that we have CAP_SYS_ADMIN for the new namespace.

Thanks - so the last hunk in this patch is wrong.

> Eric
>
> > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/fork.c | 4 ++--
> > kernel/nsproxy.c | 6 +++---
> > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index 17bf7c8..22d0cf0 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -1473,8 +1473,8 @@ long do_fork(unsigned long clone_flags,
> > /* hopefully this check will go away when userns support is
> > * complete
> > */
> > - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !capable(CAP_SETUID) ||
> > - !capable(CAP_SETGID))
> > + if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || !nsown_capable(CAP_SETUID) ||
> > + !nsown_capable(CAP_SETGID))
> > return -EPERM;
> > }
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
> > index 9aeab4b..f50542d 100644
> > --- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
> > +++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
> > @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
> > CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET)))
> > return 0;
> >
> > - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> > + if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
> > err = -EPERM;
> > goto out;
> > }
> > @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags,
> > CLONE_NEWNET)))
> > return 0;
> >
> > - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > + if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > return -EPERM;
> >
> > *new_nsp = create_new_namespaces(unshare_flags, current,
> > @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setns, int, fd, int, nstype)
> > struct file *file;
> > int err;
> >
> > - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > + if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > return -EPERM;
> >
> > file = proc_ns_fget(fd);
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