linux/net/netlink
Tycho Andersen 4a92602aa1 openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces
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>
2016-02-11 09:53:19 -05:00
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af_netlink.c netlink: not trim skb for mmaped socket when dump 2016-01-29 20:25:17 -08:00
af_netlink.h netlink: Replace rhash_portid with bound 2015-09-24 12:07:08 -07:00
diag.c netlink: make nlmsg_end() and genlmsg_end() void 2015-01-18 01:03:45 -05:00
genetlink.c openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces 2016-02-11 09:53:19 -05:00
Kconfig netlink: kconfig: move mmap i/o into netlink kconfig 2013-05-01 15:02:42 -04:00
Makefile netlink: Diag core and basic socket info dumping (v2) 2013-03-21 12:38:03 -04:00