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vfs: Allow chroot if you have CAP_SYS_CHROOT in your user namespace

Once you are confined to a user namespace applications can not gain
privilege and escape the user namespace so there is no longer a reason
to restrict chroot.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eric W. Biederman 13 years ago
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fs/open.c

@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(chroot, const char __user *, filename)
 		goto dput_and_out;
 
 	error = -EPERM;
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
+	if (!nsown_capable(CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
 		goto dput_and_out;
 	error = security_path_chroot(&path);
 	if (error)