ovl: don't warn when the mount is completed from another user namespace

fsopen() records the caller's user namespace in fc->user_ns and hands
back an ordinary file descriptor. Nothing ties the task that calls
fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE) to the task that created the context. The
fd is inherited across fork() and exec() and it can be passed over a
unix socket.

Completing a context from another user namespace is allowed on purpose.
vfs_cmd_create() authorizes the create with mount_capable(), which for
FS_USERNS_MOUNT checks ns_capable(fc->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN), and that
succeeds for a task holding CAP_SYS_ADMIN in an ancestor of fc->user_ns.
So an unprivileged task can reach the WARN_ON() in ovl_fill_super():
create a user and a mount namespace in a child, call fsopen("overlay")
there, send the fscontext fd to the parent and let the parent issue
FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE. Both namespaces come from a plain unshare(1) and no
capability is needed anywhere:

  WARNING: fs/overlayfs/super.c:1551 at ovl_fill_super+0x7b9/0x1e20 [overlay]
  CPU: 3 UID: 1000 PID: 3243376 Comm: fswarn
  Call Trace:
   get_tree_nodev+0x71/0xa0
   ovl_get_tree+0x15/0x20 [overlay]
   vfs_get_tree+0x2a/0x100
   vfs_cmd_create+0x60/0xf0
   __do_sys_fsconfig+0x4b2/0x500

The child needs the mount namespace because fsopen() itself gates on
may_mount(), which asks for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user namespace owning
the caller's mount namespace. fsconfig() doesn't repeat that check.

It is a WARN_ON() and not a WARN_ON_ONCE(), so the condition can be
raised in a loop to taint the kernel and flood the log, and it panics a
kernel booted with panic_on_warn.

Keep refusing the mount and stop warning about it. ovl_parse_param()
already spells a user namespace check this way for Opt_override_creds.

Fixes: 1784fbc2ed9c ("ovl: port to new mount api")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.5+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260802-work-fill_super-warn-v1-1-4e987911a39a@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 60f0b7ceef0a6dd38206adff6e529f95e556bd0f..60b808b85fc43908d0e6e26303bd8d63d072932c 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1544,7 +1544,8 @@ int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
        int err;
 
        err = -EIO;
-       if (WARN_ON(fc->user_ns != current_user_ns()))
+       /* The fscontext fd may have been passed to another user namespace. */
+       if (fc->user_ns != current_user_ns())
                goto out_err;
 
        ovl_set_d_op(sb);