[PATCH review 4/6] userns: Allow the userns root to mount of devpts

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 21:23:10 EST



- The context in which devpts is mounted has no effect on the creation
of ptys as the /dev/ptmx interface has been used by unprivileged
users for many years.

- Only support unprivileged mounts in combination with the newinstance
option to ensure that mounting of /dev/pts in a user namespace will
not allow the options of an existing mount of devpts to be modified.

- Create /dev/pts/ptmx as the root user in the user namespace that
mounts devpts so that it's permissions to be changed.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/devpts/inode.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index 472e6be..073d30b 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -243,6 +243,13 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)
struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
+ kuid_t root_uid;
+ kgid_t root_gid;
+
+ root_uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), 0);
+ root_gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), 0);
+ if (!uid_valid(root_uid) || !gid_valid(root_gid))
+ return -EINVAL;

mutex_lock(&root->d_inode->i_mutex);

@@ -273,6 +280,8 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)

mode = S_IFCHR|opts->ptmxmode;
init_special_inode(inode, mode, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 2));
+ inode->i_uid = root_uid;
+ inode->i_gid = root_gid;

d_add(dentry, inode);

@@ -438,6 +447,12 @@ static struct dentry *devpts_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
if (error)
return ERR_PTR(error);

+ /* Require newinstance for all user namespace mounts to ensure
+ * the mount options are not changed.
+ */
+ if ((current_user_ns() != &init_user_ns) && !opts.newinstance)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
if (opts.newinstance)
s = sget(fs_type, NULL, set_anon_super, flags, NULL);
else
@@ -491,6 +506,9 @@ static struct file_system_type devpts_fs_type = {
.name = "devpts",
.mount = devpts_mount,
.kill_sb = devpts_kill_sb,
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES
+ .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT | FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT,
+#endif
};

/*
--
1.7.5.4

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