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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-02-26 14:50:10 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-02-27 22:00:11 +0100
commitd2324a9317f00013facb0ba00b00440e19d2af5e (patch)
treef4be79d9f7824576062e4ecc512e0e96382cc849 /fs
parente6b899f08066e744f89df16ceb782e06868bd148 (diff)
nsfs: tighten permission checks for handle opening
Even privileged services should not necessarily be able to see other privileged service's namespaces so they can't leak information to each other. Use may_see_all_namespaces() helper that centralizes this policy until the nstree adapts. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-visibility-fixes-v1-2-d2c2853313bd@kernel.org Fixes: 5222470b2fbb ("nsfs: support file handles") Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org # v6.18+ Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/nsfs.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index be36c10c38cf..c215878d55e8 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static struct dentry *nsfs_fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fh,
return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
}
- if (owning_ns && !ns_capable(owning_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ if (owning_ns && !may_see_all_namespaces()) {
ns->ops->put(ns);
return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
}