[PATCH v3 0/2] lsm: expose mount idmaps to inode hooks
From: Daan De Meyer via B4 Relay <devnull+daan.amutable.com@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-09-04 14:48:59
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OverlayFS performs upper-layer operations through inode-based security hooks. Those hooks receive the upper inode and dentry, but not the mount idmap used by the VFS operation. The security layer cannot distinguish an identity-mapped upper from an idmapped one or make the same ownership decision as the VFS. The VFS layer already passes the idmap down into all relevant inode operations so this just brings the security hooks to parity. So pass the mount idmap through the create, link, symlink, mkdir, mknod, and permission hooks. Update the in-tree security implementations and non-VFS callers accordingly. systemd has been shipping systemd-nsresourced for quite a while now. It relies on inode and path hooks to perform ownership checks using a bpf lsm. To make this actually secure we need to be able to calculate the on-disk ownership from the idmap. --- Changes in v3: - Restore the two-patch split from v1. - Add the missing Signed-off-by trailers to both patches. - Link to v2: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901-lsm-mount-idmaps-v2-1-3309b9d1eda2@amutable.com Changes in v2: - Squash the implementation and selftest into a single patch. - Add the missing Signed-off-by trailer. - Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260824-lsm-mount-idmaps-v1-0-0414a9641c85@amutable.com --- Daan De Meyer (2): lsm: expose mount idmaps to inode hooks selftests/bpf: verify mount idmaps reach inode hooks fs/cachefiles/security.c | 4 +- fs/namei.c | 18 +- include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 23 +-- include/linux/security.h | 58 +++--- security/security.c | 40 ++-- security/selinux/hooks.c | 19 +- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 9 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/test_lsm.c | 231 ++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/lsm.c | 79 ++++++++ 9 files changed, 410 insertions(+), 71 deletions(-) --- base-commit: 786262be6048deab760f68c8acc2c85607165894 change-id: 20260824-lsm-mount-idmaps-9d9b994fe1a1 Best regards, -- Daan De Meyer [off-list ref]