net: Add variants of capable for use on netlink messages

[ Upstream commit aa4cf9452f469f16cea8c96283b641b4576d4a7b ]

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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 72 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/netlink.h b/include/linux/netlink.h
index 6358da5eeee..438b312aa05 100644
--- a/include/linux/netlink.h
+++ b/include/linux/netlink.h
@@ -144,4 +144,11 @@ static inline int netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 	return __netlink_dump_start(ssk, skb, nlh, control);
 }
 
+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 */
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 3f1d67e7cf5..e846e3e361f 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1219,6 +1219,71 @@ 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) ||