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>

diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index 17593d3fcdbe017b148ec1750f3310d0c41dd53f..442d1a7e671be3fff56ee702ff007bac331720fb 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -272,13 +272,8 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)
        struct dentry *root = sb->s_root;
        struct pts_fs_info *fsi = DEVPTS_SB(sb);
        struct pts_mount_opts *opts = &fsi->mount_opts;
-       kuid_t root_uid;
-       kgid_t root_gid;
-
-       root_uid = make_kuid(current_user_ns(), 0);
-       root_gid = make_kgid(current_user_ns(), 0);
-       if (!uid_valid(root_uid) || !gid_valid(root_gid))
-               return -EINVAL;
+       kuid_t ptmx_uid = current_fsuid();
+       kgid_t ptmx_gid = current_fsgid();
 
        inode_lock(d_inode(root));
 
@@ -309,8 +304,8 @@ static int mknod_ptmx(struct super_block *sb)
 
        mode = S_IFCHR|opts->ptmxmode;
        init_special_inode(inode, mode, MKDEV(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 2));
-       inode->i_uid = root_uid;
-       inode->i_gid = root_gid;
+       inode->i_uid = ptmx_uid;
+       inode->i_gid = ptmx_gid;
 
        d_add(dentry, inode);