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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-03-12 13:58:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-03-12 13:58:04 -0800
commitb6b8aa27a3c64a958c8cc57ce3d37d3fbddfa3d6 (patch)
tree7068c3fd99bb1c7caf40a62b299647a2b48fb735
parent9afc1163794707a304f107bf21b8b37e5c6c34f4 (diff)
parent3b0c2d3eaa83da259d7726192cf55a137769012f (diff)
downloadlinux-b6b8aa27a3c64a958c8cc57ce3d37d3fbddfa3d6.tar.gz
Merge branch 'for-v5.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull userns fix from Eric Biederman: "Removing the ambiguity broke userspace so this reverts the change" * 'for-v5.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: Revert 95ebabde382c ("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")
-rw-r--r--security/commoncap.c12
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 28f4d25480dfa0..1c519c87521765 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -543,8 +543,7 @@ int cap_convert_nscap(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
__u32 magic, nsmagic;
struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
struct user_namespace *task_ns = current_user_ns(),
- *fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns,
- *ancestor;
+ *fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
kuid_t rootid;
size_t newsize;
@@ -567,15 +566,6 @@ int cap_convert_nscap(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry,
if (nsrootid == -1)
return -EINVAL;
- /*
- * Do not allow allow adding a v3 filesystem capability xattr
- * if the rootid field is ambiguous.
- */
- for (ancestor = task_ns->parent; ancestor; ancestor = ancestor->parent) {
- if (from_kuid(ancestor, rootid) == 0)
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
newsize = sizeof(struct vfs_ns_cap_data);
nscap = kmalloc(newsize, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!nscap)