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-rw-r--r--support/support_become_root.c57
2 files changed, 60 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4ab52b2fd9..a5530971a0 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-11-17 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
+ support_become_root: Enable file creation in namespaces.
+ * support/support_become_root.c (setup_mapping): New function.
+ (support_become_root): Call it.
+
2017-11-17 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/hwcap.h (HWCAP_DCPOP): New
diff --git a/support/support_become_root.c b/support/support_become_root.c
index 3fa0bd4ac0..5086570251 100644
--- a/support/support_become_root.c
+++ b/support/support_become_root.c
@@ -18,18 +18,69 @@
#include <support/namespace.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <stdio.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <support/check.h>
+#include <support/xunistd.h>
#include <unistd.h>
+#ifdef CLONE_NEWUSER
+/* The necessary steps to allow file creation in user namespaces. */
+static void
+setup_uid_gid_mapping (uid_t original_uid, gid_t original_gid)
+{
+ int fd = open64 ("/proc/self/uid_map", O_WRONLY);
+ if (fd < 0)
+ {
+ printf ("warning: could not open /proc/self/uid_map: %m\n"
+ "warning: file creation may not be possible\n");
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* We map our original UID to the same UID in the container so we
+ own our own files normally. Without that, file creation could
+ fail with EOVERFLOW (sic!). */
+ char buf[100];
+ int ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%llu %llu 1\n",
+ (unsigned long long) original_uid,
+ (unsigned long long) original_uid);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ret < sizeof (buf));
+ xwrite (fd, buf, ret);
+ xclose (fd);
+
+ /* Disable setgroups before mapping groups, otherwise that would
+ fail with EPERM. */
+ fd = xopen ("/proc/self/setgroups", O_WRONLY, 0);
+ xwrite (fd, "deny\n", strlen ("deny\n"));
+ xclose (fd);
+
+ /* Now map our own GID, like we did for the user ID. */
+ fd = xopen ("/proc/self/gid_map", O_WRONLY, 0);
+ ret = snprintf (buf, sizeof (buf), "%llu %llu 1\n",
+ (unsigned long long) original_gid,
+ (unsigned long long) original_gid);
+ TEST_VERIFY_EXIT (ret < sizeof (buf));
+ xwrite (fd, buf, ret);
+ xclose (fd);
+}
+#endif /* CLONE_NEWUSER */
+
bool
support_become_root (void)
{
#ifdef CLONE_NEWUSER
+ uid_t original_uid = getuid ();
+ gid_t original_gid = getgid ();
+
if (unshare (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) == 0)
- /* Even if we do not have UID zero, we have extended privileges at
- this point. */
- return true;
+ {
+ setup_uid_gid_mapping (original_uid, original_gid);
+ /* Even if we do not have UID zero, we have extended privileges at
+ this point. */
+ return true;
+ }
#endif
if (setuid (0) != 0)
{