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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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acpi Merge branches 'acpica', 'acpi-video' and 'acpi-fan' 2016-01-21 00:41:59 +01:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2016-01-21 12:32:08 -08:00
clocksource
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2016-01-22 11:58:43 -08:00
drm drm/atomic-helper: Export framebuffer_changed() 2016-01-20 08:55:43 +08:00
dt-bindings ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
keys
kvm
linux net: Store checksum result for offloaded GSO checksums 2016-02-11 08:55:33 -05:00
math-emu
media [media] media-entitiy: add a function to create multiple links 2016-01-11 12:19:26 -02:00
memory
misc
net soreuseport: fast reuseport TCP socket selection 2016-02-11 03:54:15 -05:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma IB/mlx4: Enable send of RoCE QP1 packets with IP/UDP headers 2016-01-19 15:35:01 -05:00
rxrpc
scsi Initial roundup of 4.5 merge window patches 2016-01-23 18:45:06 -08:00
soc ARM: SoC driver updates for v4.5 2016-01-20 18:42:30 -08:00
sound ALSA: timer: Introduce disconnect op to snd_timer_instance 2016-01-21 17:51:42 +01:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2016-01-20 17:20:53 -08:00
trace sunvnet: Add support for perf LDC event tracing 2016-02-07 14:13:05 -05:00
uapi openvswitch: allow management from inside user namespaces 2016-02-11 09:53:19 -05:00
video
xen Merge branch 'for-4.5/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2016-01-21 18:19:38 -08:00
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