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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next/seccomp 1/2] selftests/seccomp: Add SKIPs for failed unshare()
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 15:52:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202007101551.E001F7B1CE@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200710191023.GA2700617@cisco>

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 01:10:23PM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 11:51:55AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Running the seccomp tests as a regular user shouldn't just fail tests
> > that require CAP_SYS_ADMIN (for getting a PID namespace). Instead,
> > detect those cases and SKIP them.
> 
> But if we unshare NEWUSER at the same time as NEWPID, shouldn't we
> always be ns_capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)?

Oh! Yes, you're quite right. :)

Instead I guess I should actually check for EINVAL if CONFIG_USER_NS is
missing.

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10 18:51 [PATCH for-next/seccomp 0/2] selftests/seccomp: SKIP tests requiring root Kees Cook
2020-07-10 18:51 ` [PATCH for-next/seccomp 1/2] selftests/seccomp: Add SKIPs for failed unshare() Kees Cook
2020-07-10 19:10   ` Tycho Andersen
2020-07-10 22:52     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-07-10 18:51 ` [PATCH for-next/seccomp 2/2] selftests/seccomp: Set NNP for TSYNC ESRCH flag test Kees Cook
2020-07-10 19:10   ` Tycho Andersen

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