@@ -169,4 +169,11 @@ struct netlink_tap {
extern int netlink_add_tap(struct netlink_tap *nt);
extern int netlink_remove_tap(struct netlink_tap *nt);
+bool __netlink_ns_capable(const struct netlink_skb_parms *nsp,
+ struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
+bool netlink_ns_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct user_namespace *ns, int cap);
+bool netlink_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb, int cap);
+bool netlink_net_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb, int cap);
+
#endif /* __LINUX_NETLINK_H */
@@ -1360,6 +1360,71 @@ retry:
return err;
}
+/**
+ * __netlink_ns_capable - General netlink message capability test
+ * @nsp: NETLINK_CB of the socket buffer holding a netlink command from userspace.
+ * @user_ns: The user namespace of the capability to use
+ * @cap: The capability to use
+ *
+ * Test to see if the opener of the socket we received the message
+ * from had when the netlink socket was created and the sender of the
+ * message has has the capability @cap in the user namespace @user_ns.
+ */
+bool __netlink_ns_capable(const struct netlink_skb_parms *nsp,
+ struct user_namespace *user_ns, int cap)
+{
+ return sk_ns_capable(nsp->sk, user_ns, cap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__netlink_ns_capable);
+
+/**
+ * netlink_ns_capable - General netlink message capability test
+ * @skb: socket buffer holding a netlink command from userspace
+ * @user_ns: The user namespace of the capability to use
+ * @cap: The capability to use
+ *
+ * Test to see if the opener of the socket we received the message
+ * from had when the netlink socket was created and the sender of the
+ * message has has the capability @cap in the user namespace @user_ns.
+ */
+bool netlink_ns_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb,
+ struct user_namespace *user_ns, int cap)
+{
+ return __netlink_ns_capable(&NETLINK_CB(skb), user_ns, cap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_ns_capable);
+
+/**
+ * netlink_capable - Netlink global message capability test
+ * @skb: socket buffer holding a netlink command from userspace
+ * @cap: The capability to use
+ *
+ * Test to see if the opener of the socket we received the message
+ * from had when the netlink socket was created and the sender of the
+ * message has has the capability @cap in all user namespaces.
+ */
+bool netlink_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb, int cap)
+{
+ return netlink_ns_capable(skb, &init_user_ns, cap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_capable);
+
+/**
+ * netlink_net_capable - Netlink network namespace message capability test
+ * @skb: socket buffer holding a netlink command from userspace
+ * @cap: The capability to use
+ *
+ * Test to see if the opener of the socket we received the message
+ * from had when the netlink socket was created and the sender of the
+ * message has has the capability @cap over the network namespace of
+ * the socket we received the message from.
+ */
+bool netlink_net_capable(const struct sk_buff *skb, int cap)
+{
+ return netlink_ns_capable(skb, sock_net(skb->sk)->user_ns, cap);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(netlink_net_capable);
+
static inline int netlink_allowed(const struct socket *sock, unsigned int flag)
{
return (nl_table[sock->sk->sk_protocol].flags & flag) ||
netlink_net_capable - The common case use, for operations that are safe on a network namespace netlink_capable - For operations that are only known to be safe for the global root netlink_ns_capable - The general case of capable used to handle special cases __netlink_ns_capable - Same as netlink_ns_capable except taking a netlink_skb_parms instead of the skbuff of a netlink message. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> --- include/linux/netlink.h | 7 ++++++ net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 72 insertions(+)