Re: [PATCH v2] devpts: Make ptmx be owned by the userns owner as a fallback

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 - 18:08:09 EST


Quoting Andy Lutomirski (luto@xxxxxxxxxx):
> New devpts instances have ptmx owned by the inner uid and gid 0.
>
> For container-style namespaces (LXC, etc), this should have no
> effect, this is fine.
>
> For sandbox-style namespaces (xdg-app and similar), this is
> problematic -- there may not be an inner 0:0. If that happens,
> devpts mounts will fail.
>
> Fix it by adding a fallback: if 0:0 is not mapped but the userns
> owner and group are mapped, then ptmx will be owned by the namespace
> owner.
>
> This won't change behavior except in cases where mount would
> currently return -EINVAL.
>
> Cc: Alexander Larsson <alexl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linux Containers <containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, looks good.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> Changes from v1:
> - Reversed the preference order (Serge)
> - Fixed misuse of uid_valid on userns->owner
>
> fs/devpts/inode.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
> index 655f21f99160..42b1e04d8334 100644
> --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> #include <linux/parser.h>
> #include <linux/fsnotify.h>
> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
> +#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
>
> #define DEVPTS_DEFAULT_MODE 0600
> /*
> @@ -247,13 +248,33 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)
> struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
> struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
> struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
> + struct user_namespace *userns = current_user_ns();
> kuid_t root_uid;
> kgid_t root_gid;
>
> - root_uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), 0);
> - root_gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), 0);
> - if (!uid_valid(root_uid) || !gid_valid(root_gid))
> - return -EINVAL;
> + /*
> + * For a new devpts instance, ptmx is owned by 0:0 if that uid
> + * and gid are mapped in the creating namespace.
> + */
> + root_uid = make_kuid(userns, 0);
> + root_gid = make_kgid(userns, 0);
> +
> + if (!uid_valid(root_uid) || !gid_valid(root_gid)) {
> + /*
> + * If the creating namespace does not have 0:0 mapped
> + * but does have the owner mapped (this is rare in
> + * container-style namespaces but common in
> + * sandbox-style namespaces), then let ptmx be owned by
> + * the namespace owner.
> + */
> + root_uid = userns->owner;
> + root_gid = userns->group;
> +
> + /* If this still doesn't work, give up. */
> + if (!kuid_has_mapping(userns, root_uid) ||
> + !kgid_has_mapping(userns, root_gid))
> + return -EINVAL;
> + }
>
> inode_lock(d_inode(root));
>
> --
> 2.5.0
>
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