Found while inspecting the code that handles the setgroups procfs file. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@xxxxxxxxx> --- Tested locally setting up a new userns, and setting setgroups as deny and allow, worked as before. kernel/user_namespace.c | 20 +++++++------------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c index 246d4d4ce5c7..64a01254ac6b 100644 --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -1142,22 +1142,18 @@ ssize_t proc_setgroups_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, struct user_namespace *ns = seq->private; char kbuf[8], *pos; bool setgroups_allowed; - ssize_t ret; /* Only allow a very narrow range of strings to be written */ - ret = -EINVAL; if ((*ppos != 0) || (count >= sizeof(kbuf))) - goto out; + return -EINVAL; /* What was written? */ - ret = -EFAULT; if (copy_from_user(kbuf, buf, count)) - goto out; + return -EFAULT; kbuf[count] = '\0'; pos = kbuf; /* What is being requested? */ - ret = -EINVAL; if (strncmp(pos, "allow", 5) == 0) { pos += 5; setgroups_allowed = true; @@ -1167,14 +1163,13 @@ ssize_t proc_setgroups_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, setgroups_allowed = false; } else - goto out; + return -EINVAL; /* Verify there is not trailing junk on the line */ pos = skip_spaces(pos); if (*pos != '\0') - goto out; + return -EINVAL; - ret = -EPERM; mutex_lock(&userns_state_mutex); if (setgroups_allowed) { /* Enabling setgroups after setgroups has been disabled @@ -1194,12 +1189,11 @@ ssize_t proc_setgroups_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, /* Report a successful write */ *ppos = count; - ret = count; -out: - return ret; + return count; + out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&userns_state_mutex); - goto out; + return -EPERM; } bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns) -- 2.14.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html