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authorAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>2025-08-05 15:45:08 +1000
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2025-09-02 11:37:24 +0200
commit7df87820122acd3204565109f636a1367912655a (patch)
treeff91f35f804b422001219c5057815b38afbf49bf /kernel
parentMerge patch series "vfs: if RESOLVE_NO_XDEV passed to openat2, don't *trigger... (diff)
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pidns: move is-ancestor logic to helper
This check will be needed in later patches, and there's no point open-coding it each time. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250805-procfs-pidns-api-v4-1-705f984940e7@cyphar.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid_namespace.c22
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid_namespace.c b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
index 7098ed44e717..b7b45c2597ec 100644
--- a/kernel/pid_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/pid_namespace.c
@@ -390,11 +390,23 @@ static void pidns_put(struct ns_common *ns)
put_pid_ns(to_pid_ns(ns));
}
+bool pidns_is_ancestor(struct pid_namespace *child,
+ struct pid_namespace *ancestor)
+{
+ struct pid_namespace *ns;
+
+ if (child->level < ancestor->level)
+ return false;
+ for (ns = child; ns->level > ancestor->level; ns = ns->parent)
+ ;
+ return ns == ancestor;
+}
+
static int pidns_install(struct nsset *nsset, struct ns_common *ns)
{
struct nsproxy *nsproxy = nsset->nsproxy;
struct pid_namespace *active = task_active_pid_ns(current);
- struct pid_namespace *ancestor, *new = to_pid_ns(ns);
+ struct pid_namespace *new = to_pid_ns(ns);
if (!ns_capable(new->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ||
!ns_capable(nsset->cred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@@ -408,13 +420,7 @@ static int pidns_install(struct nsset *nsset, struct ns_common *ns)
* this maintains the property that processes and their
* children can not escape their current pid namespace.
*/
- if (new->level < active->level)
- return -EINVAL;
-
- ancestor = new;
- while (ancestor->level > active->level)
- ancestor = ancestor->parent;
- if (ancestor != active)
+ if (!pidns_is_ancestor(new, active))
return -EINVAL;
put_pid_ns(nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);