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Commit d07b846f authored by Seth Forshee's avatar Seth Forshee Committed by Eric W. Biederman
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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: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSeth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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