Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:54:48 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: Setting FS_USERNS_MOUNT in btrfs_fs_type.fs_flags |
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:05:00PM -0400, Shea Levy wrote: > Hi all, > > What work would be required to mark btrfs_fs_type with FS_USERNS_MOUNT > so that btrfs images can be mounted by unprivileged users within a user > namespace (along with something like [1])? I'd like to be able to create > disk images without having to start a VM (and --rootdir isn't flexible > enough because I want to make subvolumes).
Er... Which is to say, you have an audit of btrfs code making sure that it can cope with arbitrary image hand-crafted by potential attacker? Because without that FS_USERNS_MOUNT could open one hell of security hole; things like user being able to execute an arbitrary code in kernel mode, etc.
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