A security fix in caused the way the unprivileged remount tests were using user namespaces to break. Tweak the way user namespaces are being used so the test works again. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- This is what it takes to fix a broken application, in it's full glory. This fix works even if new functionality does not exist. tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c b/tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c index 9669d375625a..d47227494137 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c @@ -144,13 +144,12 @@ static void create_and_enter_userns(void) strerror(errno)); } + if (access("/proc/self/setgroups", F_OK) == 0) { + write_file("/proc/self/setgroups", "0"); + } write_file("/proc/self/uid_map", "0 %d 1", uid); write_file("/proc/self/gid_map", "0 %d 1", gid); - if (setgroups(0, NULL) != 0) { - die("setgroups failed: %s\n", - strerror(errno)); - } if (setgid(0) != 0) { die ("setgid(0) failed %s\n", strerror(errno)); -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html