open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE
authorAleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Thu, 7 Aug 2025 17:55:05 +0000 (03:55 +1000)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Mon, 11 Aug 2025 12:51:49 +0000 (14:51 +0200)
commit9308366f062129d52e0ee3f7a019f7dd41db33df
tree5f4ff54a91a1552df0c2ffa5acfa2c52f591da9a
parent6b65028e2b51c023a816eabffea88980fdd5564e
open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE

As described in commit 7a54947e727b ('Merge patch series "fs: allow
changing idmappings"'), open_tree_attr(2) was necessary in order to
allow for a detached mount to be created and have its idmappings changed
without the risk of any racing threads operating on it. For this reason,
mount_setattr(2) still does not allow for id-mappings to be changed.

However, there was a bug in commit 2462651ffa76 ("fs: allow changing
idmappings") which allowed users to bypass this restriction by calling
open_tree_attr(2) *without* OPEN_TREE_CLONE.

can_idmap_mount() prevented this bug from allowing an attached
mountpoint's id-mapping from being modified (thanks to an is_anon_ns()
check), but this still allows for detached (but visible) mounts to have
their be id-mapping changed. This risks the same UAF and locking issues
as described in the merge commit, and was likely unintentional.

Fixes: 2462651ffa76 ("fs: allow changing idmappings")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.15+
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808-open_tree_attr-bugfix-idmap-v1-1-0ec7bc05646c@cyphar.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
fs/namespace.c