fs/namespace: correctly handle errors returned by grab_requested_mnt_ns

grab_requested_mnt_ns was changed to return error codes on failure, but
its callers were not updated to check for error pointers, still checking
only for a NULL return value.

This commit updates the callers to use IS_ERR() or IS_ERR_OR_NULL() and
PTR_ERR() to correctly check for and propagate errors.

This also makes sure that the logic actually works and mount namespace
file descriptors can be used to refere to mounts.

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

Rework the patch to be more ergonomic and in line with our overall error
handling patterns.

Fixes: 7b9d14af87 ("fs: allow mount namespace fd")
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111062815.2546189-1-avagin@google.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

fs/namespace.c

@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ static void mnt_ns_release(struct mnt_namespace *ns)
 		kfree(ns);
 	}
 }
-DEFINE_FREE(mnt_ns_release, struct mnt_namespace *, if (_T) mnt_ns_release(_T))
+DEFINE_FREE(mnt_ns_release, struct mnt_namespace *,
+	    if (!IS_ERR(_T)) mnt_ns_release(_T))
 
 static void mnt_ns_release_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
 {
@@ -5726,7 +5727,7 @@ static int copy_mnt_id_req(const struct mnt_id_req __user *req,
 	ret = copy_struct_from_user(kreq, sizeof(*kreq), req, usize);
 	if (ret)
 		return ret;
-	if (kreq->spare != 0)
+	if (kreq->mnt_ns_fd != 0 && kreq->mnt_ns_id)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	/* The first valid unique mount id is MNT_UNIQUE_ID_OFFSET + 1. */
 	if (kreq->mnt_id <= MNT_UNIQUE_ID_OFFSET)
@@ -5743,16 +5744,12 @@ static struct mnt_namespace *grab_requested_mnt_ns(const struct mnt_id_req *kreq
 {
 	struct mnt_namespace *mnt_ns;
 
-	if (kreq->mnt_ns_id && kreq->spare)
+	if (kreq->mnt_ns_id) {
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+		mnt_ns = lookup_mnt_ns(kreq->mnt_ns_id);
-
+	} else if (kreq->mnt_ns_fd) {
-	if (kreq->mnt_ns_id)
-		return lookup_mnt_ns(kreq->mnt_ns_id);
-
-	if (kreq->spare) {
 		struct ns_common *ns;
 
-		CLASS(fd, f)(kreq->spare);
+		CLASS(fd, f)(kreq->mnt_ns_fd);
 		if (fd_empty(f))
 			return ERR_PTR(-EBADF);
 
@@ -5767,6 +5764,8 @@ static struct mnt_namespace *grab_requested_mnt_ns(const struct mnt_id_req *kreq
 	} else {
 		mnt_ns = current->nsproxy->mnt_ns;
 	}
+	if (!mnt_ns)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
 	refcount_inc(&mnt_ns->passive);
 	return mnt_ns;
@@ -5791,8 +5790,8 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(statmount, const struct mnt_id_req __user *, req,
 		return ret;
 
 	ns = grab_requested_mnt_ns(&kreq);
-	if (!ns)
+	if (IS_ERR(ns))
-		return -ENOENT;
+		return PTR_ERR(ns);
 
 	if (kreq.mnt_ns_id && (ns != current->nsproxy->mnt_ns) &&
 	    !ns_capable_noaudit(ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
@@ -5902,8 +5901,8 @@ static void __free_klistmount_free(const struct klistmount *kls)
 static inline int prepare_klistmount(struct klistmount *kls, struct mnt_id_req *kreq,
 				     size_t nr_mnt_ids)
 {
-
 	u64 last_mnt_id = kreq->param;
+	struct mnt_namespace *ns;
 
 	/* The first valid unique mount id is MNT_UNIQUE_ID_OFFSET + 1. */
 	if (last_mnt_id != 0 && last_mnt_id <= MNT_UNIQUE_ID_OFFSET)
@@ -5917,9 +5916,10 @@ static inline int prepare_klistmount(struct klistmount *kls, struct mnt_id_req *
 	if (!kls->kmnt_ids)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	kls->ns = grab_requested_mnt_ns(kreq);
+	ns = grab_requested_mnt_ns(kreq);
-	if (!kls->ns)
+	if (IS_ERR(ns))
-		return -ENOENT;
+		return PTR_ERR(ns);
+	kls->ns = ns;
 
 	kls->mnt_parent_id = kreq->mnt_id;
 	return 0;

include/uapi/linux/mount.h

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ struct statmount {
  */
 struct mnt_id_req {
 	__u32 size;
-	__u32 spare;
+	__u32 mnt_ns_fd;
 	__u64 mnt_id;
 	__u64 param;
 	__u64 mnt_ns_id;