From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matteo Croce Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 12:59:41 +0000 Subject: [RFC net-next] ppp: allow usage in namespaces Message-Id: <20171009125941.15452-1-mcroce@redhat.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Mackerras , linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: David Miller Check for CAP_NET_ADMIN with ns_capable() instead of capable() to allow usage of ppp in user namespace other than the init one. Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c index a404552555d4..be5634b4835b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int ppp_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) /* * This could (should?) be enforced by the permissions on /dev/ppp. */ - if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN)) + if (!ns_capable(file->f_cred->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; return 0; } -- 2.13.6