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SubjectRe: [REVIEW][PATCH] vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> writes:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman
>> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> When creating a less privileged mount namespace or propogating mounts
>>> from a more privileged to a less privileged mount namespace lock the
>>> submounts so they may not be unmounted individually in the child mount
>>> namespace revealing what is under them.
>>
>> I would propose a different rule: if vfsmount b is mounted on vfsmount
>> a, then to unmount b, you must be ns_capable(CAP_SYS_MOUNT) on either
>> a's namespace or b's namespace. The idea is that you should be able
>> to see under a mount if you own the parent (because it's yours) or if
>> you own the child (because you, or someone no more privileged than
>> you, put it there). This may result in a simpler patch and should do
>> much the same thing.
>
> It definitely won't result in a simpler patch as the information you are
> basing the decision on is not available.
>

Ah, I see -- mnt_ns gets changed when the namespace is duplicated.

Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>

--Andy


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