This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
userns: Rename id_map_mutex to userns_state_mutex
to the 3.17-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-rename-id_map_mutex-to-userns_state_mutex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From f0d62aec931e4ae3333c797d346dc4f188f454ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 14:03:14 -0600
Subject: userns: Rename id_map_mutex to userns_state_mutex
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
commit f0d62aec931e4ae3333c797d346dc4f188f454ba upstream.
Generalize id_map_mutex so it can be used for more state of a user namespace.
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/user_namespace.c | 14 ++++++--------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
static struct kmem_cache *user_ns_cachep __read_mostly;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(userns_state_mutex);
static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
struct user_namespace *ns, int cap_setid,
@@ -583,9 +584,6 @@ static bool mappings_overlap(struct uid_
return false;
}
-
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(id_map_mutex);
-
static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
int cap_setid,
@@ -602,7 +600,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
/*
- * The id_map_mutex serializes all writes to any given map.
+ * The userns_state_mutex serializes all writes to any given map.
*
* Any map is only ever written once.
*
@@ -620,7 +618,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
* order and smp_rmb() is guaranteed that we don't have crazy
* architectures returning stale data.
*/
- mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&userns_state_mutex);
ret = -EPERM;
/* Only allow one successful write to the map */
@@ -750,7 +748,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *fi
*ppos = count;
ret = count;
out:
- mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&userns_state_mutex);
if (page)
free_page(page);
return ret;
@@ -845,12 +843,12 @@ bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct u
{
bool allowed;
- mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&userns_state_mutex);
/* It is not safe to use setgroups until a gid mapping in
* the user namespace has been established.
*/
allowed = ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0;
- mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);
+ mutex_unlock(&userns_state_mutex);
return allowed;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.17/mnt-update-unprivileged-remount-test.patch
queue-3.17/mnt-fix-a-memory-stomp-in-umount.patch
queue-3.17/userns-check-euid-no-fsuid-when-establishing-an-unprivileged-uid-mapping.patch
queue-3.17/mnt-implicitly-add-mnt_nodev-on-remount-when-it-was-implicitly-added-by-mount.patch
queue-3.17/userns-don-t-allow-unprivileged-creation-of-gid-mappings.patch
queue-3.17/userns-rename-id_map_mutex-to-userns_state_mutex.patch
queue-3.17/userns-add-a-knob-to-disable-setgroups-on-a-per-user-namespace-basis.patch
queue-3.17/userns-allow-setting-gid_maps-without-privilege-when-setgroups-is-disabled.patch
queue-3.17/userns-don-t-allow-setgroups-until-a-gid-mapping-has-been-setablished.patch
queue-3.17/groups-consolidate-the-setgroups-permission-checks.patch
queue-3.17/userns-only-allow-the-creator-of-the-userns-unprivileged-mappings.patch
queue-3.17/userns-document-what-the-invariant-required-for-safe-unprivileged-mappings.patch
queue-3.17/umount-disallow-unprivileged-mount-force.patch
queue-3.17/userns-unbreak-the-unprivileged-remount-tests.patch
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