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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:56:23 +0100
From: Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net>
To: Askar Safin <safinaskar@...l.ru>
Cc: kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] fs: Allow no_new_privs tasks to call chroot(2)
On 27/03/2021 00:12, Askar Safin wrote:
> Hi. Unprivileged users already can do chroot. He should simply create userns and then call "chroot" inside. As an LWN commenter noted, you can simply run
> "unshare -r /usr/sbin/chroot some-dir". (I recommend reading all comments: https://lwn.net/Articles/849125/ .)
We know that userns can be use to get the required capability in a new
namespace, but this patch is to not require to use this namespace, as
explained in the commit message. I already added some comments in the
LWN article though.
>
> Also: if you need chroot for path resolving only, consider openat2 with RESOLVE_IN_ROOT ( https://lwn.net/Articles/796868/ ).
openat2 was also discussed in previous versions of this patch.
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