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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-09-18 17:58:08 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2018-05-24 12:02:25 -0500
commitbc6155d1326092f4c29fe05a32b614249620d88e (patch)
treed36853f7e280a4dff8d653981ce71193218c77b7 /fs/namespace.c
parent0031181c49ca94b14b11f08e447f40c6ebc842a4 (diff)
downloadlinux-bc6155d1326092f4c29fe05a32b614249620d88e.tar.gz
fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb()
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.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namespace.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/namespace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 5f75969adff1..8ddd14806799 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ 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))
@@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ 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);