[PATCH v6 23/40] exec: handle idmapped mounts

Christian Brauner christian.brauner at ubuntu.com
Mon Jan 25 16:44:04 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:39:01AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com> writes:
> 
> > When executing a setuid binary the kernel will verify in bprm_fill_uid()
> > that the inode has a mapping in the caller's user namespace before
> > setting the callers uid and gid. Let bprm_fill_uid() handle idmapped
> > mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount it is mapped
> > according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks are
> > identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is
> > passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical
> > behavior as before.
> 
> This does not handle the v3 capabilites xattr with embeds a uid.
> So at least at that level you are missing some critical conversions.

Thanks for looking. Vfs v3 caps are handled earlier in the series. I'm
not sure what you're referring to here. There are tests in xfstests that
verify vfs3 capability behavior.

Christian



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