userns: Allow unprivileged reboot
authorLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 03:39:12 +0000 (11:39 +0800)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Thu, 27 Dec 2012 04:29:30 +0000 (20:29 -0800)
In a container with its own pid namespace and user namespace, rebooting
the system won't reboot the host, but terminate all the processes in
it and thus have the container shutdown, so it's safe.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
kernel/sys.c

index 265b37690421897afe6f133953e21c8bbf5632ad..24d1ef56cd95aa595adc70b9e43ab570f9efd11d 100644 (file)
@@ -433,11 +433,12 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(reboot_mutex);
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
                void __user *, arg)
 {
+       struct pid_namespace *pid_ns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
        char buffer[256];
        int ret = 0;
 
        /* We only trust the superuser with rebooting the system. */
-       if (!capable(CAP_SYS_BOOT))
+       if (!ns_capable(pid_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_BOOT))
                return -EPERM;
 
        /* For safety, we require "magic" arguments. */
@@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(reboot, int, magic1, int, magic2, unsigned int, cmd,
         * pid_namespace, the command is handled by reboot_pid_ns() which will
         * call do_exit().
         */
-       ret = reboot_pid_ns(task_active_pid_ns(current), cmd);
+       ret = reboot_pid_ns(pid_ns, cmd);
        if (ret)
                return ret;