userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces

It is pointless and confusing to allow a pid namespace hierarchy and
the user namespace hierarchy to get out of sync.  The owner of a child
pid namespace should be the owner of the parent pid namespace or
a descendant of the owner of the parent pid namespace.

Otherwise it is possible to construct scenarios where a process has a
capability over a parent pid namespace but does not have the
capability over a child pid namespace.  Which confusingly makes
permission checks non-transitive.

It requires use of setns into a pid namespace (but not into a user
namespace) to create such a scenario.

Add the function in_userns to help in making this determination.

v2: Optimized in_userns by using level as suggested
    by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>

Ref: 49f4d8b93ccf ("pidns: Capture the user namespace and filter ns_last_pid")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 2f735cbe05e8..c490f1e4313b 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -986,17 +986,21 @@ bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
 }
 
 /*
- * Returns true if @ns is the same namespace as or a descendant of
- * @target_ns.
+ * Returns true if @child is the same namespace or a descendant of
+ * @ancestor.
  */
+bool in_userns(const struct user_namespace *ancestor,
+	       const struct user_namespace *child)
+{
+	const struct user_namespace *ns;
+	for (ns = child; ns->level > ancestor->level; ns = ns->parent)
+		;
+	return (ns == ancestor);
+}
+
 bool current_in_userns(const struct user_namespace *target_ns)
 {
-	struct user_namespace *ns;
-	for (ns = current_user_ns(); ns; ns = ns->parent) {
-		if (ns == target_ns)
-			return true;
-	}
-	return false;
+	return in_userns(target_ns, current_user_ns());
 }
 
 static inline struct user_namespace *to_user_ns(struct ns_common *ns)