In 99.99% of the cases only root in a user namespace can mount /dev/pts and in those cases the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx will remain root.root In the oddball case where someone else has CAP_SYS_ADMIN this code modifies the /dev/pts mount code to use current_fsuid and current_fsgid as the values to use when creating the /dev/ptmx inode. As is done when any other file is created. This is a code simplification, and it allows running without a root user entirely. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/devpts/inode.c | 13 ++++--------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c index 17593d3fcdbe..442d1a7e671b 100644 --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -272,13 +272,8 @@ 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; - 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; + kuid_t ptmx_uid = current_fsuid(); + kgid_t ptmx_gid = current_fsgid(); inode_lock(d_inode(root)); @@ -309,8 +304,8 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb) mode = S_IFCHR|opts->ptmxmode; init_special_inode(inode, mode, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 2)); - inode->i_uid = root_uid; - inode->i_gid = root_gid; + inode->i_uid = ptmx_uid; + inode->i_gid = ptmx_gid; d_add(dentry, inode); -- 2.8.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
