userns: Teach inode_capable to understand inodes whose uids map to other namespaces.
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:08:45 +0000 (13:08 -0700)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Tue, 15 May 2012 21:59:24 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
kernel/capability.c

index cc5f0718215dc418dc116da6ba2e0148445f0158..493d97259484cfef006c59b934be4fcf9663d1ac 100644 (file)
@@ -429,12 +429,14 @@ bool nsown_capable(int cap)
  * targeted at it's own user namespace and that the given inode is owned
  * by the current user namespace or a child namespace.
  *
- * Currently inodes can only be owned by the initial user namespace.
+ * Currently we check to see if an inode is owned by the current
+ * user namespace by seeing if the inode's owner maps into the
+ * current user namespace.
  *
  */
 bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
 {
        struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns();
 
-       return ns_capable(ns, cap) && (ns == &init_user_ns);
+       return ns_capable(ns, cap) && kuid_has_mapping(ns, inode->i_uid);
 }