On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 09:34:06PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: > [+Cc [email protected]] > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 04:00:04PM +0800, Zhan Xusheng wrote: > > From: Zhan Xusheng <[email protected]> > > > > fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy() calls inode_owner_or_capable() with > > &nop_mnt_idmap before allowing an encryption policy to be set, instead of > > the idmap of the mount the ioctl was issued on. > > > > fscrypt is used by filesystems that support idmapped mounts (e.g. ext4, > > f2fs), so on such a mount this compares the caller's fsuid against the > > unmapped on-disk owner rather than the mapped owner: the actual owner can > > be wrongly denied with -EACCES and an unrelated caller wrongly allowed. > > Use file_mnt_idmap(filp) instead. > > > > Fixes: 01beba7957a2 ("fs: port inode_owner_or_capable() to mnt_idmap") > > Cc: [email protected] > > Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <[email protected]> > > --- > > fs/crypto/policy.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/fs/crypto/policy.c b/fs/crypto/policy.c > > index 9915e39362db..c80b24a941ad 100644 > > --- a/fs/crypto/policy.c > > +++ b/fs/crypto/policy.c > > @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ int fscrypt_ioctl_set_policy(struct file *filp, const > > void __user *arg) > > return -EFAULT; > > policy.version = version; > > > > - if (!inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode)) > > + if (!inode_owner_or_capable(file_mnt_idmap(filp), inode)) > > return -EACCES; > > > > ret = mnt_want_write_file(filp); > > -- > > 2.43.0 > > Thanks. I don't think the Fixes commit is quite right: 01beba7957a2 > seems to have been a behavior-preserving commit. It even says that it > was "eliminating the possibility of any bugs" :-) > > Really it seems a patch to this function was just missing entirely, but > I would probably use 14f3db5542e6 ("ext4: support idmapped mounts"). > That's when the other ext4 ioctls got converted to use > file_mnt_user_ns() and the idmap support was enabled on ext4, but this > was missed. (And ext4 was the first fscrypt-capable filesystem to get > idmap support.) As usual, this also needs 'Cc stable'. > > I guess I'll plan to take this through the fscrypt tree. I'll update > the tags when committing if there's no other feedback.
Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/linux.git/log/?h=for-current - Eric

