Eric W. Biederman e98d413703 devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts ...

In 99.99% of the cases only root in a user namespace can mount /dev/pts
and in those cases the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx will remain root.root

In the oddball case where someone else has CAP_SYS_ADMIN this code
modifies the /dev/pts mount code to use current_fsuid and current_fsgid
as the values to use when creating the /dev/ptmx inode.  As is done
when any other file is created.

This is a code simplification, and it allows running without a root
user entirely.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2016-09-23 11:31:31 +02:00

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inode.c

devpts: Change the owner of /dev/pts/ptmx to the mounter of /dev/pts

2016-09-23 11:31:31 +02:00

Makefile

[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

2005-09-05 00:05:52 -07:00