On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:25:36PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Superblock level remounts are currently restricted to global
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN, as is the path for changing the root mount to
> read only on umount. Loosen both of these permission checks to
> also allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in any namespace which is privileged
> towards the userns which originally mounted the filesystem.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christ...@brauner.io>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.fors...@canonical.com>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>

Note, I just talked to Serge. This should be Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
<se...@hallyn.com>

> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com>
> ---
>  fs/namespace.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> index 5f75969adff1..8ddd14806799 100644
> --- a/fs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> @@ -1590,7 +1590,7 @@ static int do_umount(struct mount *mnt, int flags)
>                * Special case for "unmounting" root ...
>                * we just try to remount it readonly.
>                */
> -             if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +             if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>                       return -EPERM;
>               down_write(&sb->s_umount);
>               if (!sb_rdonly(sb))
> @@ -2333,7 +2333,7 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int ms_flags, 
> int sb_flags,
>       down_write(&sb->s_umount);
>       if (ms_flags & MS_BIND)
>               err = change_mount_flags(path->mnt, ms_flags);
> -     else if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +     else if (!ns_capable(sb->s_user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>               err = -EPERM;
>       else
>               err = do_remount_sb(sb, sb_flags, data, 0);
> -- 
> 2.14.1
> 
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