From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:47:19 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: nsenter: fix minor issues with namespace ID support
X-Git-Tag: v2.43-devel~71
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=611a54c76e813bfe18ff013efd1f984822d60a1d;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

nsenter: fix minor issues with namespace ID support

- fix pidfd_self FD leak when ioctl(PIDFD_GET_MNT_NAMESPACE) fails
- fix "namesapces" typo in man page
- document "./" disambiguation for files starting with ":"
- use standard C initializer = { 0 } instead of = {}

Addresses: https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/pull/4044
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/sys-utils/nsenter.1.adoc b/sys-utils/nsenter.1.adoc
index 3dec46d66..9e5bc81da 100644
--- a/sys-utils/nsenter.1.adoc
+++ b/sys-utils/nsenter.1.adoc
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ include::man-common/help-version.adoc[]
 
 The *--user-parent* option requires Linux 4.9 or higher, older kernels will raise inappropriate ioctl for device error.
 
-Specifying namesapces by _nsid_ requires Linux 6.19 or higher.
+Specifying namespaces by _nsid_ requires Linux 6.19 or higher. If a namespace
+file name starts with a colon, prepend "./" for disambiguation.
 
 == AUTHORS
 
diff --git a/sys-utils/nsenter.c b/sys-utils/nsenter.c
index 2820a7123..d6d9a58cd 100644
--- a/sys-utils/nsenter.c
+++ b/sys-utils/nsenter.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ static void open_target_fd(int *fd, const char *type, const char *path)
 
 #ifdef HAVE_STRUCT_NSFS_FILE_HANDLE
 
-static struct file_handle nsfs_fh_tmpl = {};
+static struct file_handle nsfs_fh_tmpl = { 0 };
 static int nsfs_fd = -1;
 
 static int fill_nsfs_file_handle(struct file_handle *fh, uint64_t ns_id)
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ static int fill_nsfs_file_handle(struct file_handle *fh, uint64_t ns_id)
 
 	/* Mount namespace can not be disabled by kernel config */
 	nsfs_fd = ioctl(pidfd_self, PIDFD_GET_MNT_NAMESPACE, 0);
+	close(pidfd_self);
 	if (nsfs_fd < 0)
 		return -errno;
-	close(pidfd_self);
 
 	fh->handle_bytes = sizeof(struct nsfs_file_handle);
 	if (name_to_handle_at(nsfs_fd, "", fh, &mount_id,