linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container

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Message-ID: <m11v369h5a.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:05:21 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, xemul@...allels.com,
	dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] allow sethostname in a container

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>


> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
> ---
>  kernel/sys.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index 18da702..7a1bbad 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(sethostname, char __user *, name, int, len)
>  	int errno;
>  	char tmp[__NEW_UTS_LEN];
>  
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +	if (!ns_capable(current->nsproxy->uts_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  	if (len < 0 || len > __NEW_UTS_LEN)
>  		return -EINVAL;
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