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Subject[PATCH] sysfs: Allow mounting without CONFIG_NET

In kobj_ns_current_may_mount the default should be to allow the
mount. The test is only for a single kobj_ns_type at a time, and unless
there is a reason to prevent it the mounting sysfs should be allowed.
Subsystems that are not registered can't have are not involved so can't
have a reason to prevent mounting sysfs.

This is a bug-fix to:
commit 7dc5dbc879bd0779924b5132a48b731a0bc04a1e
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Mon Mar 25 20:07:01 2013 -0700

sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs

Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights
over the net namespace. The principle here is if you create or have
capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with
what other people have mounted.

Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call,
perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers,
this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves
the existing sysfs abstractions.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

That came in via the userns tree during the 3.12 merge window.

Reported-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---

lib/kobject.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 9621751..669bf19 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -933,10 +933,7 @@ const struct kobj_ns_type_operations *kobj_ns_ops(struct kobject *kobj)

bool kobj_ns_current_may_mount(enum kobj_ns_type type)
{
- bool may_mount = false;
-
- if (type == KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE)
- return true;
+ bool may_mount = true;

spin_lock(&kobj_ns_type_lock);
if ((type > KOBJ_NS_TYPE_NONE) && (type < KOBJ_NS_TYPES) &&
--
1.7.10.4


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