[PATCH review 03/18] umount: Disallow unprivileged mount force

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Forced unmount affects not just the mount namespace but the underlying
superblock as well.  Restrict forced unmount to the global root user
for now.  Otherwise it becomes possible a user in a less privileged
mount namespace to force the shutdown of a superblock of a filesystem
in a more privileged mount namespace, allowing a DOS attack on root.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 3a1a87dc33df..43b16af8af30 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1544,6 +1544,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(umount, char __user *, name, int, flags)
 		goto dput_and_out;
 	if (mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCKED)
 		goto dput_and_out;
+	retval = -EPERM;
+	if (flags & MNT_FORCE && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+		goto dput_and_out;
 
 	retval = do_umount(mnt, flags);
 dput_and_out:
-- 
1.9.1

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