[PATCH v2 2/2] nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return owner UID of a userns
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <hidden>
Date: 2016-12-23 09:54:57
I'd like to write code that discovers the user namespace hierarchy on a running system, and also shows who owns the various user namespaces. Currently, there is no way of getting the owner UID of a user namespace. Therefore, this patch adds an NS_GET_CREATOR_UID ioctl() that fetches the (munged) UID of the creator of the user namespace referred to by the specified file descriptor. If the supplied file descriptor does not refer to a user namespace, the operation fails with the error EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <redacted> --- V2 changes: * Renamed ioctl() from NS_CREATOR_UID to NS_OWNER_UID, at the suggestion of Eric Biederman. * Make ioctl() return UID via buffer pointed to by argp. (Returning the UID via the result value could lead to problems since a large unsigned int UID might be misinterpreted as an error.) Thanks to Andrei Vagin for pointing this out. --- fs/nsfs.c | 11 +++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index 9f24b47..9c9277c 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ #include <linux/seq_file.h> #include <linux/user_namespace.h> #include <linux/nsfs.h> +#include <linux/uaccess.h> static struct vfsmount *nsfs_mnt;
@@ -163,7 +164,10 @@ static int open_related_ns(struct ns_common *ns, static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, unsigned long arg) { + struct user_namespace *user_ns; struct ns_common *ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(filp)); + unsigned int __user *argp; + unsigned int uid; switch (ioctl) { case NS_GET_USERNS:
@@ -174,6 +178,13 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl, return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent); case NS_GET_NSTYPE: return ns->ops->type; + case NS_GET_OWNER_UID: + if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWUSER) + return -EINVAL; + user_ns = container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns); + argp = (unsigned int __user *) arg; + uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), user_ns->owner); + return put_user(uid, argp); default: return -ENOTTY; }
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
index 2b48df1..c4a925e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@ #define NSIO 0xb7 /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user namespace */ -#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) +#define NS_GET_USERNS _IO(NSIO, 0x1) /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace */ -#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) +#define NS_GET_PARENT _IO(NSIO, 0x2) /* Returns the type of namespace (CLONE_NEW* value) referred to by file descriptor */ -#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) +#define NS_GET_NSTYPE _IO(NSIO, 0x3) +/* Get owner UID for a user namespace */ +#define NS_GET_OWNER_UID _IO(NSIO, 0x4) #endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */
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