Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755440AbaJGWou (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 18:44:50 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f54.google.com ([209.85.215.54]:63956 "EHLO mail-la0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755396AbaJGWos (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 18:44:48 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87h9zfpkm3.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> References: <1412683977-29543-1-git-send-email-avagin@openvz.org> <20141007133039.GG7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20141007133339.GH7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87r3yjy64e.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20141007204627.GI28519@ubuntumail> <87wq8bvbzg.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20141007213257.GJ28519@ubuntumail> <87zjd7r1z9.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87h9zfpkm3.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:44:26 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] mnt: add ability to clone mntns starting with the current root To: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Serge Hallyn , Al Viro , Andrey Vagin , Linux FS Devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Linux API , Andrey Vagin , Andrew Morton , Cyrill Gorcunov , Pavel Emelyanov , Serge Hallyn , Rob Landley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andy Lutomirski writes: > >> On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >>> >>> I am squinting and looking this way and that but while I can imagine >>> someone more clever than I can think up some unique property of rootfs >>> that makes it a little more exploitable than just mounting a ramfs, >>> but since you have to be root to exploit those properties I think the >>> game is pretty much lost. >> >> Yes. rootfs might not be empty, it might have totally insane >> permissions, and it's globally shared, which makes it into a wonderful >> channel to pass things around that shouldn't be passed around. > > But if only root with proc mounted can reach it... I don't know. It doesn't have to be global root. It could be userns root. > There might be a case for setting MNT_LOCKED when we overmount "/" > as root but I don't yet see it. > >> Can non-root do this? You'd need to be in a userns with a "/" that >> isn't MNT_LOCKED. Can this happen on any normal setup? >> >> FWIW, I think we should unconditionally MNT_LOCKED the root on userns >> unshare, even if it's the only mount. > > To the best of my knowledge MNT_LOCKED is set uncondintially on userns > unshare. Only if list_empty(&old->mnt_expire), whatever that means, I think. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/