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It is pointless and confusing to allow a pid namespace hierarchy and
the user namespace hierarchy to get out of sync. The owner of a child
pid namespace should be the owner of the parent pid namespace or
a descendant of the owner of the parent pid namespace.
Otherwise it is possible to construct scenarios where a process has a
capability over a parent pid namespace but does not have the
capability over a child pid namespace. Which confusingly makes
permission checks non-transitive.
It requires use of setns into a pid namespace (but not into a user
namespace) to create such a scenario.
Add the function in_userns to help in making this determination.
v2: Optimized in_userns by using level as suggested
by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Ref: 49f4d8b93c ("pidns: Capture the user namespace and filter ns_last_pid")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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