From: Serge Hallyn Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 19:12:12 +0000 (+0100) Subject: add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default Origin: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=serge%2Fubuntu-saucy.git;a=commit;h=5c847404dcb2e3195ad0057877e1422ae90892b8 add sysctl to disallow unprivileged CLONE_NEWUSER by default This is a short-term patch. Unprivileged use of CLONE_NEWUSER is certainly an intended feature of user namespaces. However for at least saucy we want to make sure that, if any security issues are found, we have a fail-safe. Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn [bwh: Remove unneeded binary sysctl bits] --- --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include +#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS +extern int unprivileged_userns_clone; +#else +#define unprivileged_userns_clone 0 +#endif /* * Minimum number of threads to boot the kernel @@ -1252,6 +1257,10 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS)) == (CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_FS)) return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + if ((clone_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) && !unprivileged_userns_clone) + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return ERR_PTR(-EPERM); + /* * Thread groups must share signals as well, and detached threads * can only be started up within the thread group. @@ -1944,6 +1953,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(unshare, unsigned long, if (unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWNS) unshare_flags |= CLONE_FS; + if ((unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER) && !unprivileged_userns_clone) { + err = -EPERM; + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + goto bad_unshare_out; + } + err = check_unshare_flags(unshare_flags); if (err) goto bad_unshare_out; --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ extern int core_uses_pid; extern char core_pattern[]; extern unsigned int core_pipe_limit; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS +extern int unprivileged_userns_clone; +#endif extern int pid_max; extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction; @@ -489,6 +492,15 @@ static struct ctl_table kern_table[] = { .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, }, +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS + { + .procname = "unprivileged_userns_clone", + .data = &unprivileged_userns_clone, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = proc_dointvec, + }, #endif #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL { --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ #include #include +/* sysctl */ +int unprivileged_userns_clone; + static struct kmem_cache *user_ns_cachep __read_mostly; static DEFINE_MUTEX(userns_state_mutex);