Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933394AbcLSOj2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:39:28 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f67.google.com ([74.125.82.67]:36406 "EHLO mail-wm0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755875AbcLSOij (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Dec 2016 09:38:39 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return creator UID of a userns To: "Eric W. Biederman" , "Serge E. Hallyn" References: From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrey Vagin , James Bottomley , "W. Trevor King" , Alexander Viro , Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <46b85444-dc97-17a3-4445-439923936450@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 15:38:35 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2742 Lines: 78 # Some open questions about this patch below. # One of the rules regarding capabilities is: A process that resides in the parent of the user namespace and whose effective user ID matches the owner of the namespace has all capabilities in the namespace. Therefore, in order to write code that discovers whether process X has capabilities in namespace Y, we need a way to find out who the creator of a user namespace is. This patch adds an NS_GET_CREATOR_UID ioctl() that returns the (munged) UID of the creator of the user namespace referred to by the specified file descriptor. If the supplied file descriptor does not refer to a user namespace, the operation fails with the error EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- fs/nsfs.c | 6 ++++++ include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Open questions: * Would it be preferabe to separate the logic for NS_GET_CREATOR_UID into a small helper function? * Is this a correct use of container_of()? I did not immediately see another way to get to the user_namespace struct, but I may well have missed something. diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c index 5d53476..26f6d94 100644 --- a/fs/nsfs.c +++ b/fs/nsfs.c @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ int open_related_ns(struct ns_common *ns, static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg) { + struct user_namespace *user_ns; struct ns_common *ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(filp)); switch (ioctl) { @@ -174,6 +175,11 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent); case NS_GET_NSTYPE: return ns->ops->type; + case NS_GET_CREATOR_UID: + if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWUSER) + return -EINVAL; + user_ns = container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns); + return from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), user_ns->owner); default: return -ENOTTY; } diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h index 2b48df1..b3c6c78 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ #define NSIO 0xb7 /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user namespace */ -#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) +#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace */ -#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) +#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) /* Returns the type of namespace (CLONE_NEW* value) referred to by file descriptor */ -#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) +#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) +/* Get creator UID for a user namespace */ +#define NS_GET_CREATOR_UID _IO(NSIO, 0x4) #endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */ -- 2.5.5