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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH] nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2025 22:29:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251111-sakralbau-guthaben-7dcc277d337f@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <691360cc.a70a0220.22f260.013e.GAE@google.com>

Make it possible to handle NULL being passed to the reference count
helpers instead of forcing the caller to handle this. Afterwards we can
nicely allow a cleanup guard to handle nsproxy freeing.

Active reference count handling is not done in nsproxy_free() but rather
in free_nsproxy() as nsproxy_free() is also called from setns() failure
paths where a new nsproxy has been prepared but has not been marked as
active via switch_task_namespaces().

Fixes: 3c9820d5c64a ("ns: add active reference count")
Reported-by: syzbot+0b2e79f91ff6579bfa5b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+0a8655a80e189278487e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/690bfb9e.050a0220.2e3c35.0013.GAE@google.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 include/linux/ns_common.h |  11 ++--
 kernel/nsproxy.c          | 107 +++++++++++++++-----------------------
 2 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/ns_common.h b/include/linux/ns_common.h
index 136f6a322e53..825f5865bfc5 100644
--- a/include/linux/ns_common.h
+++ b/include/linux/ns_common.h
@@ -114,11 +114,14 @@ static __always_inline __must_check bool __ns_ref_dec_and_lock(struct ns_common
 }
 
 #define ns_ref_read(__ns) __ns_ref_read(to_ns_common((__ns)))
-#define ns_ref_inc(__ns) __ns_ref_inc(to_ns_common((__ns)))
-#define ns_ref_get(__ns) __ns_ref_get(to_ns_common((__ns)))
-#define ns_ref_put(__ns) __ns_ref_put(to_ns_common((__ns)))
+#define ns_ref_inc(__ns) \
+	do { if (__ns) __ns_ref_inc(to_ns_common((__ns))); } while (0)
+#define ns_ref_get(__ns) \
+	((__ns) ? __ns_ref_get(to_ns_common((__ns))) : false)
+#define ns_ref_put(__ns) \
+	((__ns) ? __ns_ref_put(to_ns_common((__ns))) : false)
 #define ns_ref_put_and_lock(__ns, __ns_lock) \
-	__ns_ref_dec_and_lock(to_ns_common((__ns)), __ns_lock)
+	((__ns) ? __ns_ref_dec_and_lock(to_ns_common((__ns)), __ns_lock) : false)
 
 #define ns_ref_active_read(__ns) \
 	((__ns) ? __ns_ref_active_read(to_ns_common(__ns)) : 0)
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index 94c2cfe0afa1..2c94452dc793 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -60,6 +60,27 @@ static inline struct nsproxy *create_nsproxy(void)
 	return nsproxy;
 }
 
+static inline void nsproxy_free(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
+	put_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
+	put_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
+	put_pid_ns(ns->pid_ns_for_children);
+	put_time_ns(ns->time_ns);
+	put_time_ns(ns->time_ns_for_children);
+	put_cgroup_ns(ns->cgroup_ns);
+	put_net(ns->net_ns);
+	kmem_cache_free(nsproxy_cachep, ns);
+}
+
+DEFINE_FREE(nsproxy_free, struct nsproxy *, if (_T) nsproxy_free(_T))
+
+void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
+{
+	nsproxy_ns_active_put(ns);
+	nsproxy_free(ns);
+}
+
 /*
  * Create new nsproxy and all of its the associated namespaces.
  * Return the newly created nsproxy.  Do not attach this to the task,
@@ -69,76 +90,45 @@ static struct nsproxy *create_new_namespaces(u64 flags,
 	struct task_struct *tsk, struct user_namespace *user_ns,
 	struct fs_struct *new_fs)
 {
-	struct nsproxy *new_nsp;
-	int err;
+	struct nsproxy *new_nsp __free(nsproxy_free) = NULL;
 
 	new_nsp = create_nsproxy();
 	if (!new_nsp)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
 	new_nsp->mnt_ns = copy_mnt_ns(flags, tsk->nsproxy->mnt_ns, user_ns, new_fs);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
-		goto out_ns;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->mnt_ns))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
 
 	new_nsp->uts_ns = copy_utsname(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->uts_ns);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns);
-		goto out_uts;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->uts_ns))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->uts_ns);
 
 	new_nsp->ipc_ns = copy_ipcs(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
-		goto out_ipc;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->ipc_ns))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
 
-	new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children =
-		copy_pid_ns(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children);
-		goto out_pid;
-	}
+	new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children = copy_pid_ns(flags, user_ns,
+						   tsk->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children);
 
 	new_nsp->cgroup_ns = copy_cgroup_ns(flags, user_ns,
 					    tsk->nsproxy->cgroup_ns);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->cgroup_ns)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->cgroup_ns);
-		goto out_cgroup;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->cgroup_ns))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->cgroup_ns);
 
 	new_nsp->net_ns = copy_net_ns(flags, user_ns, tsk->nsproxy->net_ns);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->net_ns)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->net_ns);
-		goto out_net;
-	}
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->net_ns))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->net_ns);
 
 	new_nsp->time_ns_for_children = copy_time_ns(flags, user_ns,
-					tsk->nsproxy->time_ns_for_children);
-	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->time_ns_for_children)) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(new_nsp->time_ns_for_children);
-		goto out_time;
-	}
+						     tsk->nsproxy->time_ns_for_children);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_nsp->time_ns_for_children))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_nsp->time_ns_for_children);
 	new_nsp->time_ns = get_time_ns(tsk->nsproxy->time_ns);
 
-	return new_nsp;
-
-out_time:
-	put_net(new_nsp->net_ns);
-out_net:
-	put_cgroup_ns(new_nsp->cgroup_ns);
-out_cgroup:
-	put_pid_ns(new_nsp->pid_ns_for_children);
-out_pid:
-	put_ipc_ns(new_nsp->ipc_ns);
-out_ipc:
-	put_uts_ns(new_nsp->uts_ns);
-out_uts:
-	put_mnt_ns(new_nsp->mnt_ns);
-out_ns:
-	kmem_cache_free(nsproxy_cachep, new_nsp);
-	return ERR_PTR(err);
+	return no_free_ptr(new_nsp);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -185,21 +175,6 @@ int copy_namespaces(u64 flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void free_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
-{
-	nsproxy_ns_active_put(ns);
-
-	put_mnt_ns(ns->mnt_ns);
-	put_uts_ns(ns->uts_ns);
-	put_ipc_ns(ns->ipc_ns);
-	put_pid_ns(ns->pid_ns_for_children);
-	put_time_ns(ns->time_ns);
-	put_time_ns(ns->time_ns_for_children);
-	put_cgroup_ns(ns->cgroup_ns);
-	put_net(ns->net_ns);
-	kmem_cache_free(nsproxy_cachep, ns);
-}
-
 /*
  * Called from unshare. Unshare all the namespaces part of nsproxy.
  * On success, returns the new nsproxy.
@@ -338,7 +313,7 @@ static void put_nsset(struct nsset *nsset)
 	if (nsset->fs && (flags & CLONE_NEWNS) && (flags & ~CLONE_NEWNS))
 		free_fs_struct(nsset->fs);
 	if (nsset->nsproxy)
-		free_nsproxy(nsset->nsproxy);
+		nsproxy_free(nsset->nsproxy);
 }
 
 static int prepare_nsset(unsigned flags, struct nsset *nsset)
-- 
2.47.3



  reply	other threads:[~2025-11-11 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <690bfb9e.050a0220.2e3c35.0013.GAE@google.com>
2025-11-09  8:24 ` [syzbot] [fs?] WARNING in nsproxy_ns_active_put syzbot
2025-11-11  9:24   ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11  9:46     ` syzbot
2025-11-11 10:26       ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 11:02         ` syzbot
2025-11-11 11:23           ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 11:38             ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 13:03               ` syzbot
2025-11-11 15:07                 ` Christian Brauner
2025-11-11 16:14                   ` syzbot
2025-11-11 21:29                     ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2025-11-13 11:19                       ` [PATCH] nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces() Jan Kara
2025-11-13 13:05                         ` Christian Brauner

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