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openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces

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Operations with the GENL_ADMIN_PERM flag fail permissions checks because
this flag means we call netlink_capable, which uses the init user ns.

Instead, let's introduce a new flag, GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM for operations
which should be allowed inside a user namespace.

The motivation for this is to be able to run openvswitch in unprivileged
containers. I've tested this and it seems to work, but I really have no
idea about the security consequences of this patch, so thoughts would be
much appreciated.

v2: use the GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM flag instead of a check in each function
v3: use separate ifs for UNS_ADMIN_PERM and ADMIN_PERM, instead of one
    massive one

Reported-by: James Page <james.page@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
CC: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tycho Andersen
2016-02-05 09:20:52 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 4456ed04ea
commit 4a92602aa1
3 changed files with 15 additions and 10 deletions
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@@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ static int genl_family_rcv_msg(struct genl_family *family,
!netlink_capable(skb, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if ((ops->flags & GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM) &&
!netlink_ns_capable(skb, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
if ((nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_DUMP) == NLM_F_DUMP) {
int rc;