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[REVIEW,6/6] fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems

Message ID 20180523232538.4880-6-ebiederm@xmission.com (mailing list archive)
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Eric W. Biederman May 23, 2018, 11:25 p.m. UTC
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 fs/ioctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Christian Brauner May 24, 2018, 3:59 p.m. UTC | #1
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:25:38PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> 
> The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
> and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
> ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> ---
>  fs/ioctl.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
> index 4823431d1c9d..b445b13fc59b 100644
> --- a/fs/ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/ioctl.c
> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
>  
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +	if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
>  	/* If filesystem doesn't support freeze feature, return. */
> @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static int ioctl_fsthaw(struct file *filp)
>  {
>  	struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
>  
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +	if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
>  	/* Thaw */
> -- 
> 2.14.1
>
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diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index 4823431d1c9d..b445b13fc59b 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@  static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	/* If filesystem doesn't support freeze feature, return. */
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@  static int ioctl_fsthaw(struct file *filp)
 {
 	struct super_block *sb = file_inode(filp)->i_sb;
 
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	/* Thaw */