[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 99d81f07c9ac5ca4b2569d812ac22e6336334ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:36:04 -0600
Subject: userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is
 disabled

commit 66d2f338ee4c449396b6f99f5e75cd18eb6df272 upstream.

Now that setgroups can be disabled and not reenabled, setting gid_map
without privielge can now be enabled when setgroups is disabled.

This restores most of the functionality that was lost when unprivileged
setting of gid_map was removed.  Applications that use this functionality
will need to check to see if they use setgroups or init_groups, and if they
don't they can be fixed by simply disabling setgroups before writing to
gid_map.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/user_namespace.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index c960426a46fc..a4017e14a5b0 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -826,6 +826,11 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
 			kuid_t uid = make_kuid(ns->parent, id);
 			if (uid_eq(uid, cred->euid))
 				return true;
+		} else if (cap_setid == CAP_SETGID) {
+			kgid_t gid = make_kgid(ns->parent, id);
+			if (!(ns->flags & USERNS_SETGROUPS_ALLOWED) &&
+			    gid_eq(gid, cred->egid))
+				return true;
 		}
 	}

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2.1.4