userns: Replace the hard to write inode_userns with inode_capable.

This represents a change in strategy of how to handle user namespaces.
Instead of tagging everything explicitly with a user namespace and bulking
up all of the comparisons of uids and gids in the kernel,  all uids and gids
in use will have a mapping to a flat kuid and kgid spaces respectively.  This
allows much more of the existing logic to be preserved and in general
allows for faster code.

In this new and improved world we allow someone to utiliize capabilities
over an inode if the inodes owner mapps into the capabilities holders user
namespace and the user has capabilities in their user namespace.  Which
is simple and efficient.

Moving the fs uid comparisons to be comparisons in a flat kuid space
follows in later patches, something that is only significant if you
are using user namespaces.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c
index 3f1adb6c6470..cc5f0718215d 100644
--- a/kernel/capability.c
+++ b/kernel/capability.c
@@ -419,3 +419,22 @@ bool nsown_capable(int cap)
 {
         return ns_capable(current_user_ns(), cap);
 }
+
+/**
+ * inode_capable - Check superior capability over inode
+ * @inode: The inode in question
+ * @cap: The capability in question
+ *
+ * Return true if the current task has the given superior capability
+ * targeted at it's own user namespace and that the given inode is owned
+ * by the current user namespace or a child namespace.
+ *
+ * Currently inodes can only be owned by the initial user namespace.
+ *
+ */
+bool inode_capable(const struct inode *inode, int cap)
+{
+        struct user_namespace *ns = current_user_ns();
+
+        return ns_capable(ns, cap) && (ns == &init_user_ns);
+}