Merge patch series "open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE"
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> says: As described in commit 7a54947e ('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 2462651f ("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. For what it's worth, I found this while working on the open_tree_attr(2) man page, and was trying to figure out what open_tree_attr(2)'s behaviour was in the (slightly fruity) ~OPEN_TREE_CLONE case. * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/20250808-open_tree_attr-bugfix-idmap-v1-0-0ec7bc05646c@cyphar.com: selftests/mount_setattr: add smoke tests for open_tree_attr(2) bug open_tree_attr: do not allow id-mapping changes without OPEN_TREE_CLONE Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250808-open_tree_attr-bugfix-idmap-v1-0-0ec7bc05646c@cyphar.com Signed-off-by:Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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