From b33c77ef23dd3ec5692c9c0cc739a3f5f0f2baae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:50:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] userns: Allow unprivileged users to create new namespaces If an unprivileged user has the appropriate capabilities in their current user namespace allow the creation of new namespaces. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- kernel/nsproxy.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c index 7f8b051fc19f..a214e0e9035f 100644 --- a/kernel/nsproxy.c +++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ out_ns: int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk) { struct nsproxy *old_ns = tsk->nsproxy; + struct user_namespace *user_ns = task_cred_xxx(tsk, user_ns); struct nsproxy *new_ns; int err = 0; @@ -134,7 +135,7 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk) CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET))) return 0; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { + if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { err = -EPERM; goto out; } @@ -191,7 +192,7 @@ int unshare_nsproxy_namespaces(unsigned long unshare_flags, CLONE_NEWNET | CLONE_NEWPID))) return 0; - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; *new_nsp = create_new_namespaces(unshare_flags, current, -- 2.20.1