userns: Allow unprivileged use of setns.

- Push the permission check from the core setns syscall into
  the setns install methods where the user namespace of the
  target namespace can be determined, and used in a ns_capable
  call.

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

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/utsname.c b/kernel/utsname.c
index 679d97a5d3fd..4a9362f9325d 100644
--- a/kernel/utsname.c
+++ b/kernel/utsname.c
@@ -102,8 +102,13 @@ static void utsns_put(void *ns)
         put_uts_ns(ns);
 }
 
-static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *ns)
+static int utsns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, void *new)
 {
+        struct uts_namespace *ns = new;
+
+        if (!ns_capable(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+                return -EPERM;
+
         get_uts_ns(ns);
         put_uts_ns(nsproxy->uts_ns);
         nsproxy->uts_ns = ns;