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Eric W. Biederman a636b702ed ipc: Restrict mounting the mqueue filesystem

Only allow mounting the mqueue filesystem if the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN
rights over the ipc namespace.   The principle here is if you create
or have capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live
with what other people have mounted.

This information is not particularly sensitive and mqueue essentially
only reports which posix messages queues exist.  Still when creating a
restricted environment for an application to live any extra
information may be of use to someone with sufficient creativity.  The
historical if imperfect way this information has been restricted has
been not to allow mounts and restricting this to ipc namespace
creators maintains the spirit of the historical restriction.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

2013-03-27 07:50:06 -07:00

compat_mq.c

ipc: initialize structure memory to zero for compat functions

2010-10-27 18:03:13 -07:00

compat.c

selftests: IPC message queue copy feature test

2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00

ipc_sysctl.c

ipc: add sysctl to specify desired next object id

2013-01-04 16:11:45 -08:00

ipcns_notifier.c

ipc: do not use a negative value to re-enable msgmni automatic recomputing