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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2013-03-15 01:45:51 -0700
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2013-03-27 07:49:29 -0700
commit3151527ee007b73a0ebd296010f1c0454a919c7d (patch)
tree33175354889523cd20586fb28456e566529c46d9 /kernel
parenteddc0a3abff273842a94784d2d022bbc36dc9015 (diff)
downloadlinux-3151527ee007b73a0ebd296010f1c0454a919c7d.tar.bz2
userns: Don't allow creation if the user is chrooted
Guarantee that the policy of which files may be access that is established by setting the root directory will not be violated by user namespaces by verifying that the root directory points to the root of the mount namespace at the time of user namespace creation. Changing the root is a privileged operation, and as a matter of policy it serves to limit unprivileged processes to files below the current root directory. For reasons of simplicity and comprehensibility the privilege to change the root directory is gated solely on the CAP_SYS_CHROOT capability in the user namespace. Therefore when creating a user namespace we must ensure that the policy of which files may be access can not be violated by changing the root directory. Anyone who runs a processes in a chroot and would like to use user namespace can setup the same view of filesystems with a mount namespace instead. With this result that this is not a practical limitation for using user namespaces. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/user_namespace.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index b14f4d342043..0f1e42884577 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
kgid_t group = new->egid;
int ret;
+ /*
+ * Verify that we can not violate the policy of which files
+ * may be accessed that is specified by the root directory,
+ * by verifing that the root directory is at the root of the
+ * mount namespace which allows all files to be accessed.
+ */
+ if (current_chrooted())
+ return -EPERM;
+
/* The creator needs a mapping in the parent user namespace
* or else we won't be able to reasonably tell userspace who
* created a user_namespace.