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openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces

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Operations with the GENL_ADMIN_PERM flag fail permissions checks because
this flag means we call netlink_capable, which uses the init user ns.

Instead, let's introduce a new flag, GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM for operations
which should be allowed inside a user namespace.

The motivation for this is to be able to run openvswitch in unprivileged
containers. I've tested this and it seems to work, but I really have no
idea about the security consequences of this patch, so thoughts would be
much appreciated.

v2: use the GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM flag instead of a check in each function
v3: use separate ifs for UNS_ADMIN_PERM and ADMIN_PERM, instead of one
    massive one

Reported-by: James Page <james.page@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com>
CC: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: Pravin Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
CC: Justin Pettit <jpettit@nicira.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@ovn.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Tycho Andersen
2016-02-05 09:20:52 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 4456ed04ea
commit 4a92602aa1
3 changed files with 15 additions and 10 deletions
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include/uapi/linux/genetlink.h
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@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct genlmsghdr {
#define GENL_CMD_CAP_DO 0x02
#define GENL_CMD_CAP_DUMP 0x04
#define GENL_CMD_CAP_HASPOL 0x08
#define GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM 0x10
/*
* List of reserved static generic netlink identifiers: