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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-10-29 15:21:05 +0300
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-11-03 19:41:22 +0300
commit1c28817eb37eea6593f8734a01b419f33df0ab5b (patch)
treed6e8192bd4caf75308973f1475d074d5616bb65c /tools/testing
parent6f360f2b2f2285ad3cc8072afde0e3eeb2b926e5 (diff)
downloadlinux-1c28817eb37eea6593f8734a01b419f33df0ab5b.tar.xz
selftests/namespaces: fifth listns() permission test
Test that CAP_SYS_ADMIN in parent user namespace allows seeing child user namespace's owned namespaces. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-52-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/testing')
-rw-r--r--tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/listns_permissions_test.c119
1 files changed, 119 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/listns_permissions_test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/listns_permissions_test.c
index 7727c5964104..b990b785dd7f 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/listns_permissions_test.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/namespaces/listns_permissions_test.c
@@ -442,4 +442,123 @@ TEST(listns_current_user_permissions)
TH_LOG("LISTNS_CURRENT_USER returned %zd namespaces", count);
}
+/*
+ * Test that CAP_SYS_ADMIN in parent user namespace allows seeing
+ * child user namespace's owned namespaces.
+ */
+TEST(listns_parent_userns_cap_sys_admin)
+{
+ int pipefd[2];
+ pid_t pid;
+ int status;
+ bool found_child_userns;
+ ssize_t count;
+
+ ASSERT_EQ(pipe(pipefd), 0);
+
+ pid = fork();
+ ASSERT_GE(pid, 0);
+
+ if (pid == 0) {
+ int fd;
+ __u64 parent_userns_id;
+ __u64 child_userns_id;
+ struct ns_id_req req;
+ __u64 ns_ids[100];
+ ssize_t ret;
+ bool found_child_userns;
+
+ close(pipefd[0]);
+
+ /* Create parent user namespace - we have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in it */
+ if (setup_userns() < 0) {
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /* Get parent user namespace ID */
+ fd = open("/proc/self/ns/user", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ if (ioctl(fd, NS_GET_ID, &parent_userns_id) < 0) {
+ close(fd);
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ close(fd);
+
+ /* Create child user namespace */
+ if (setup_userns() < 0) {
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /* Get child user namespace ID */
+ fd = open("/proc/self/ns/user", O_RDONLY);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ if (ioctl(fd, NS_GET_ID, &child_userns_id) < 0) {
+ close(fd);
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+ close(fd);
+
+ /* Create namespaces owned by child user namespace */
+ if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNET) < 0) {
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /* List namespaces owned by parent user namespace */
+ req.size = sizeof(req);
+ req.spare = 0;
+ req.ns_id = 0;
+ req.ns_type = 0;
+ req.spare2 = 0;
+ req.user_ns_id = parent_userns_id;
+
+ ret = sys_listns(&req, ns_ids, ARRAY_SIZE(ns_ids), 0);
+
+ /* Should see child user namespace in the list */
+ found_child_userns = false;
+ if (ret > 0) {
+ for (ssize_t i = 0; i < ret; i++) {
+ if (ns_ids[i] == child_userns_id) {
+ found_child_userns = true;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
+ write(pipefd[1], &found_child_userns, sizeof(found_child_userns));
+ write(pipefd[1], &ret, sizeof(ret));
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+ exit(0);
+ }
+
+ /* Parent */
+ close(pipefd[1]);
+
+ found_child_userns = false;
+ count = 0;
+ read(pipefd[0], &found_child_userns, sizeof(found_child_userns));
+ read(pipefd[0], &count, sizeof(count));
+ close(pipefd[0]);
+
+ waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
+ ASSERT_TRUE(WIFEXITED(status));
+ ASSERT_EQ(WEXITSTATUS(status), 0);
+
+ ASSERT_TRUE(found_child_userns);
+ TH_LOG("Process with CAP_SYS_ADMIN in parent user namespace saw child user namespace (total: %zd)",
+ count);
+}
+
TEST_HARNESS_MAIN