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, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index 8297e5b341d8..9217169c64cb 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ extern ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t,
 extern ssize_t proc_setgroups_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern int proc_setgroups_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v);
 extern bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns);
+extern bool current_in_userns(const struct user_namespace *target_ns);
 #else
 
 static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
@@ -100,6 +101,11 @@ static inline bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
 	return true;
 }
+
+static inline bool current_in_userns(const struct user_namespace *target_ns)
+{
+	return true;
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_USER_H */