The patch titled
userns: allow sethostname in a container
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
userns-allow-sethostname-in-a-container.patch
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Subject: userns: allow sethostname in a container
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees.cook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN kernel/sys.c~userns-allow-sethostname-in-a-container kernel/sys.c
--- a/kernel/sys.c~userns-allow-sethostname-in-a-container
+++ a/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user
int errno;
char tmp[__NEW_UTS_LEN];
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+ if (!ns_capable(current->nsproxy->uts_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if (len < 0 || len > __NEW_UTS_LEN)
return -EINVAL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from serge@xxxxxxxxxx are
lib-hexdumpc-make-hex2bin-return-the-updated-src-address.patch
fs-binfmt_miscc-use-kernels-hex_to_bin-method.patch
fs-binfmt_miscc-use-kernels-hex_to_bin-method-fix.patch
fs-binfmt_miscc-use-kernels-hex_to_bin-method-fix-fix.patch
pid-remove-the-child_reaper-special-case-in-init-mainc.patch
pidns-call-pid_ns_prepare_proc-from-create_pid_namespace.patch
procfs-kill-the-global-proc_mnt-variable.patch
userns-add-a-user_namespace-as-creator-owner-of-uts_namespace.patch
userns-security-make-capabilities-relative-to-the-user-namespace.patch
userns-allow-sethostname-in-a-container.patch
userns-allow-killing-tasks-in-your-own-or-child-userns.patch
userns-allow-ptrace-from-non-init-user-namespaces.patch
userns-user-namespaces-convert-all-capable-checks-in-kernel-sysc.patch
userns-add-a-user-namespace-owner-of-ipc-ns.patch
userns-user-namespaces-convert-several-capable-calls.patch
userns-userns-check-user-namespace-for-task-file-uid-equivalence-checks.patch
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