[PATCH 05/11] fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb()

From: Dongsu Park
Date: Fri Dec 22 2017 - 09:31:39 EST


From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Superblock level remounts are currently restricted to global
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, as is the path for changing the root mount to
read only on umount. Loosen both of these permission checks to
also allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in any namespace which is privileged
towards the userns which originally mounted the filesystem.

Patch v4 is available: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8944631/

Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dongsu@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namespace.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index e158ec6b..830040d7 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, int flags)
* Special case for "unmounting" root ...
* we just try to remount it readonly.
*/
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
down_write(&sb->s_umount);
if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
@@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int ms_flags, int sb_flags,
down_write(&sb->s_umount);
if (ms_flags & MS_BIND)
err = change_mount_flags(path->mnt, ms_flags);
- else if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ else if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
err = -EPERM;
else
err = do_remount_sb(sb, sb_flags, data, 0);
--
2.13.6