This patch allows a process to unshare its user namespace through the execns() syscall. It also forbids the use of the unshare() syscall on user namespaces. The purpose of this restriction is to prevent inconsistencies in the accounting for each process. Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Kirill Korotaev Cc: Andrey Savochkin Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Herbert Poetzl Cc: Sam Vilain Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Dave Hansen --- fs/exec.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---- kernel/fork.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1/fs/exec.c =================================================================== --- 2.6.18-rc1-mm1.orig/fs/exec.c +++ 2.6.18-rc1-mm1/fs/exec.c @@ -1254,6 +1254,7 @@ int do_execns(int unshare_flags, char * struct nsproxy *new_nsproxy = NULL, *old_nsproxy = NULL; struct uts_namespace *uts, *new_uts = NULL; struct ipc_namespace *ipc, *new_ipc = NULL; + struct user_namespace *user, *new_user = NULL; err = unshare_utsname(unshare_flags, &new_uts); if (err) @@ -1261,24 +1262,27 @@ int do_execns(int unshare_flags, char * err = unshare_ipcs(unshare_flags, &new_ipc); if (err) goto bad_execns_cleanup_uts; + err = unshare_user_ns(unshare_flags, &new_user); + if (err) + goto bad_execns_cleanup_ipc; - if (new_uts || new_ipc) { + if (new_uts || new_ipc || new_user) { old_nsproxy = current->nsproxy; new_nsproxy = dup_namespaces(old_nsproxy); if (!new_nsproxy) { err = -ENOMEM; - goto bad_execns_cleanup_ipc; + goto bad_execns_cleanup_user; } } err = do_execve(filename, argv, envp, regs); if (err) - goto bad_execns_cleanup_ipc; + goto bad_execns_cleanup_user; /* make sure all files are flushed */ flush_all_old_files(current->files); - if (new_uts || new_ipc) { + if (new_uts || new_ipc || new_user) { task_lock(current); @@ -1299,12 +1303,22 @@ int do_execns(int unshare_flags, char * new_ipc = ipc; } + if (new_user) { + user = current->nsproxy->user_ns; + current->nsproxy->user_ns = new_user; + new_user = user; + } + task_unlock(current); } if (new_nsproxy) put_nsproxy(new_nsproxy); +bad_execns_cleanup_user: + if (new_user) + put_user_ns(new_user); + bad_execns_cleanup_ipc: if (new_ipc) put_ipc_ns(new_ipc); Index: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1/kernel/fork.c =================================================================== --- 2.6.18-rc1-mm1.orig/kernel/fork.c +++ 2.6.18-rc1-mm1/kernel/fork.c @@ -1615,6 +1615,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_unshare(unsigned lon CLONE_NEWUTS|CLONE_NEWIPC)) goto bad_unshare_out; + /* Also return -EINVAL for all unsharable namespaces. May be a + * -EACCES would be more appropriate ? */ + if (unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) + goto bad_unshare_out; + if ((err = unshare_thread(unshare_flags))) goto bad_unshare_out; if ((err = unshare_fs(unshare_flags, &new_fs))) --