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. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 5f75969adff1..8ddd14806799 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ 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)) @@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ 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); -- 2.14.1
