From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Superblock level remounts are currently restricted to global CAP_SYS_ADMIN, as is the path for changing the root mount to read only on umount. Loosen both of these permission checks to also allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in any namespace which is privileged towards the userns which originally mounted the filesystem. Patch v4 is available: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8944631/ Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dongsu Park <dongsu@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index e158ec6b..830040d7 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1589,7 +1589,7 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, int flags) * Special case for "unmounting" root ... * we just try to remount it readonly. */ - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; down_write(&sb->s_umount); if (!sb_rdonly(sb)) @@ -2327,7 +2327,7 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int ms_flags, int sb_flags, down_write(&sb->s_umount); if (ms_flags & MS_BIND) err = change_mount_flags(path->mnt, ms_flags); - else if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + else if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) err = -EPERM; else err = do_remount_sb(sb, sb_flags, data, 0); -- 2.13.6