From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:41:19 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fs: add fchroot()
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb/index.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=20370a5f5d9b1549ab3bf10a898b4e024b8841fa;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

fs: add fchroot()

Add a file descriptor based counterpart to chroot(2). This has been
overdue for a long time. It is the natural companion to fchdir() and
avoids re-resolving a path that the caller already holds a file
descriptor to. No TOCTOU between resolving the target and changing the
root. It composes with modern fd-based APIs meaning it works with O_PATH
file descriptors and file descriptors to detached mount trees created
via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE).

The permission model is identical to chroot(2). The caller must have
CAP_SYS_CHROOT in its user namespace, must pass MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR
permission checks on the target directory, and LSMs are consulted via
the same security_path_chroot() hook.

The system call takes a flags argument for future extensibility which
must currently be zero.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260724-work-failfs-v2-3-485dabbae185@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 56b6032d4d81..c57f641f2e29 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -618,6 +618,35 @@ dput_and_out:
 	return error;
 }
 
+SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fchroot, int, fd, unsigned int, flags)
+{
+	int error;
+
+	if (flags)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	CLASS(fd_raw, f)(fd);
+	if (fd_empty(f))
+		return -EBADF;
+
+	if (!d_can_lookup(fd_file(f)->f_path.dentry))
+		return -ENOTDIR;
+
+	error = file_permission(fd_file(f), MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
+	if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
+		return -EPERM;
+
+	error = security_path_chroot(&fd_file(f)->f_path);
+	if (error)
+		return error;
+
+	set_fs_root(current->fs, &fd_file(f)->f_path);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 int chmod_common(const struct path *path, umode_t mode)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = path->dentry->d_inode;
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 874d9067a43b..8413b624ad47 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -457,6 +457,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_faccessat2(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int mode,
 asmlinkage long sys_chdir(const char __user *filename);
 asmlinkage long sys_fchdir(unsigned int fd);
 asmlinkage long sys_chroot(const char __user *filename);
+asmlinkage long sys_fchroot(int fd, unsigned int flags);
 asmlinkage long sys_fchmod(unsigned int fd, umode_t mode);
 asmlinkage long sys_fchmodat(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
 			     umode_t mode);