[Devel] Re: [PATCH 8/9] user namespaces: convert several capable() calls

Daniel Lezcano daniel.lezcano at free.fr
Sat Feb 19 11:07:56 PST 2011


On 02/17/2011 04:03 PM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> CAP_IPC_OWNER and CAP_IPC_LOCK can be checked against current_user_ns(),
> because the resource comes from current's own ipc namespace.
>
> setuid/setgid are to uids in own namespace, so again checks can be
> against current_user_ns().
>
> Changelog:
> 	Jan 11: Use task_ns_capable() in place of sched_capable().
> 	Jan 11: Use nsown_capable() as suggested by Bastian Blank.
> 	Jan 11: Clarify (hopefully) some logic in futex and sched.c
> 	Feb 15: use ns_capable for ipc, not nsown_capable
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn<serge.hallyn at canonical.com>
> ---

Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano at free.fr>
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