Commit cfb2f6f6 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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Revert "mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount"

This reverts commit 36735a6a.

Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> writes:
> [REGRESSION v4.16-rc6] [PATCH] mqueue: forbid unprivileged user access to internal mount
>
> Felix reported weird behaviour on 4.16.0-rc6 with regards to mqueue[1],
> which was introduced by 36735a6a ("mqueue: switch to on-demand
> creation of internal mount").
>
> Basically, the reproducer boils down to being able to mount mqueue if
> you create a new user namespace, even if you don't unshare the IPC
> namespace.
>
> Previously this was not possible, and you would get an -EPERM. The mount
> is the *host* mqueue mount, which is being cached and just returned from
> mqueue_mount(). To be honest, I'm not sure if this is safe or not (or if
> it was intentional -- since I'm not familiar with mqueue).
>
> To me it looks like there is a missing permission check. I've included a
> patch below that I've compile-tested, and should block the above...
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