Re: [patch 8/9] unprivileged mounts: propagation: inherit owner from parent

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>]

Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu):
> > Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu):
> > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> > > 
> > > On mount propagation, let the owner of the clone be inherited from the
> > > parent into which it has been propagated.  Also if the parent has the
> > > "nosuid" flag, set this flag for the child as well.
> > 
> > What about nodev?
> 
> Hmm, I think the nosuid thing is meant to prevent suid mounts being
> introduced into a "suidless" namespace.  This doesn't apply to dev
> mounts, which are quite safe in a suidless environment, as long as the
> user is not able to create devices.  But that should be taken care of
> by capability tests.
> 
> I'll update the description.

Hmm,

Part of me wants to say the safest thing for now would be to refuse
mounts propagation from non-user mounts to user mounts.

I assume you're thinking about a fully user-mounted chroot, where
the user woudl still want to be able to stick in a cdrom and have
it automounted under /mnt/cdrom, propagated from the root mounts ns?

But then are there no devices which the user could create on a floppy
while inserted into his own laptop, owned by his own uid, then insert
into this machine, and use the device under the auto-mounted /dev/floppy
to gain inappropriate access?

-serge