This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: userns-allow-setting-gid_maps-without-privilege-when-setgroups-is-disabled.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 66d2f338ee4c449396b6f99f5e75cd18eb6df272 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:36:04 -0600 Subject: userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 66d2f338ee4c449396b6f99f5e75cd18eb6df272 upstream. Now that setgroups can be disabled and not reenabled, setting gid_map without privielge can now be enabled when setgroups is disabled. This restores most of the functionality that was lost when unprivileged setting of gid_map was removed. Applications that use this functionality will need to check to see if they use setgroups or init_groups, and if they don't they can be fixed by simply disabling setgroups before writing to gid_map. Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/user_namespace.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c @@ -818,6 +818,11 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const st kuid_t uid = make_kuid(ns->parent, id); if (uid_eq(uid, cred->euid)) return true; + } else if (cap_setid == CAP_SETGID) { + kgid_t gid = make_kgid(ns->parent, id); + if (!(ns->flags & USERNS_SETGROUPS_ALLOWED) && + gid_eq(gid, cred->egid)) + return true; } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/mnt-update-unprivileged-remount-test.patch queue-3.14/mnt-fix-a-memory-stomp-in-umount.patch queue-3.14/userns-check-euid-no-fsuid-when-establishing-an-unprivileged-uid-mapping.patch queue-3.14/mnt-implicitly-add-mnt_nodev-on-remount-when-it-was-implicitly-added-by-mount.patch queue-3.14/userns-don-t-allow-unprivileged-creation-of-gid-mappings.patch queue-3.14/userns-rename-id_map_mutex-to-userns_state_mutex.patch queue-3.14/userns-add-a-knob-to-disable-setgroups-on-a-per-user-namespace-basis.patch queue-3.14/userns-allow-setting-gid_maps-without-privilege-when-setgroups-is-disabled.patch queue-3.14/userns-don-t-allow-setgroups-until-a-gid-mapping-has-been-setablished.patch queue-3.14/groups-consolidate-the-setgroups-permission-checks.patch queue-3.14/userns-only-allow-the-creator-of-the-userns-unprivileged-mappings.patch queue-3.14/userns-document-what-the-invariant-required-for-safe-unprivileged-mappings.patch queue-3.14/umount-disallow-unprivileged-mount-force.patch queue-3.14/userns-unbreak-the-unprivileged-remount-tests.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html