kernel: add a helper to get an owning user namespace for a namespace

Return -EPERM if an owning user namespace is outside of a process
current user namespace.

v2: In a first version ns_get_owner returned ENOENT for init_user_ns.
    This special cases was removed from this version. There is nothing
    outside of init_user_ns, so we can return EPERM.
v3: rename ns->get_owner() to ns->owner(). get_* usually means that it
grabs a reference.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 68f594212759..0ef683a03c20 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -1004,12 +1004,36 @@ static int userns_install(struct nsproxy *nsproxy, struct ns_common *ns)
 	return commit_creds(cred);
 }
 
+struct ns_common *ns_get_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
+{
+	struct user_namespace *my_user_ns = current_user_ns();
+	struct user_namespace *owner, *p;
+
+	/* See if the owner is in the current user namespace */
+	owner = p = ns->ops->owner(ns);
+	for (;;) {
+		if (!p)
+			return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+		if (p == my_user_ns)
+			break;
+		p = p->parent;
+	}
+
+	return &get_user_ns(owner)->ns;
+}
+
+static struct user_namespace *userns_owner(struct ns_common *ns)
+{
+	return to_user_ns(ns)->parent;
+}
+
 const struct proc_ns_operations userns_operations = {
 	.name		= "user",
 	.type		= CLONE_NEWUSER,
 	.get		= userns_get,
 	.put		= userns_put,
 	.install	= userns_install,
+	.owner		= userns_owner,
 };
 
 static __init int user_namespaces_init(void)