fs: Limit file caps to the user namespace of the super block

Capability sets attached to files must be ignored except in the
user namespaces where the mounter is privileged, i.e. s_user_ns
and its descendants. Otherwise a vector exists for gaining
privileges in namespaces where a user is not already privileged.

Add a new helper function, current_in_user_ns(), to test whether a user
namespace is the same as or a descendant of another namespace.
Use this helper to determine whether a file's capability set
should be applied to the caps constructed during exec.

--EWB Replaced in_userns with the simpler current_in_userns.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 9bafc211930c..68f594212759 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -938,6 +938,20 @@ bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
 	return allowed;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Returns true if @ns is the same namespace as or a descendant of
+ * @target_ns.
+ */
+bool current_in_userns(const struct user_namespace *target_ns)
+{
+	struct user_namespace *ns;
+	for (ns = current_user_ns(); ns; ns = ns->parent) {
+		if (ns == target_ns)
+			return true;
+	}
+	return false;
+}
+
 static inline struct user_namespace *to_user_ns(struct ns_common *ns)
 {
 	return container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns);