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From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
	 "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,  Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	 Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	 Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	 Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, keyrings@vger.kernel.org,
	 kernel-tls-handshake@lists.linux.dev, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 2/5] NFS: allocate the .nfs keyring per network namespace
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:05:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260918-nfs-mtls-identity-v1-2-197e568d78a7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260918-nfs-mtls-identity-v1-0-197e568d78a7@kernel.org>

Commit 87268f7a4f1f ("nfs: create a kernel keyring") allocates one
.nfs keyring at module load, and nothing in the NFS client reads it.
One module-wide keyring also cannot isolate x.509 credentials
between network namespaces. Each tlshd instance services the
handshake socket of one network namespace, so a credential
provisioned for that namespace's mounts has to be reachable by that
tlshd and by no other.

Allocate one .nfs keyring per network namespace in nfs_net_init()
and release it in nfs_net_exit(). tlshd finds a keyring by name
through /proc/keys, which is not namespace scoped, so each handshake
request has to carry the keyring serial instead. Allocate the
keyring under a kernel credential rather than that of the task
creating the namespace, so an LSM labels every namespace's keyring
the same way.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfs/inode.c | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 fs/nfs/netns.h |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 832923be43a9..bd327fbb12d8 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -2641,11 +2641,50 @@ static int nfsiod_start(void)
 unsigned int nfs_net_id;
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_net_id);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
+static int nfs_init_keyring(struct nfs_net *nn)
+{
+	struct cred *cred;
+	struct key *keyring;
+
+	cred = prepare_kernel_cred(&init_task);
+	if (!cred)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+	keyring = keyring_alloc(".nfs", GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID, cred,
+				(KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
+				(KEY_USR_ALL & ~KEY_USR_SETATTR),
+				KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA, NULL, NULL);
+	put_cred(cred);
+	if (IS_ERR(keyring))
+		return PTR_ERR(keyring);
+	nn->nfs_keyring = keyring;
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void nfs_exit_keyring(struct nfs_net *nn)
+{
+	key_put(nn->nfs_keyring);
+}
+#else
+static inline int nfs_init_keyring(struct nfs_net *nn)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline void nfs_exit_keyring(struct nfs_net *nn)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_KEYS */
+
 static int nfs_net_init(struct net *net)
 {
 	struct nfs_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfs_net_id);
 	int err;
 
+	err = nfs_init_keyring(nn);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	nfs_clients_init(net);
 
 	if (!rpc_proc_register(net, &nn->rpcstats)) {
@@ -2663,14 +2702,18 @@ static int nfs_net_init(struct net *net)
 	rpc_proc_unregister(net, "nfs");
 err_proc_rpc:
 	nfs_clients_exit(net);
+	nfs_exit_keyring(nn);
 	return err;
 }
 
 static void nfs_net_exit(struct net *net)
 {
+	struct nfs_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfs_net_id);
+
 	rpc_proc_unregister(net, "nfs");
 	nfs_fs_proc_net_exit(net);
 	nfs_clients_exit(net);
+	nfs_exit_keyring(nn);
 }
 
 static struct pernet_operations nfs_net_ops = {
@@ -2680,35 +2723,6 @@ static struct pernet_operations nfs_net_ops = {
 	.size = sizeof(struct nfs_net),
 };
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
-static struct key *nfs_keyring;
-
-static int __init nfs_init_keyring(void)
-{
-	nfs_keyring = keyring_alloc(".nfs",
-			     GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID,
-			     current_cred(),
-			     (KEY_POS_ALL & ~KEY_POS_SETATTR) |
-			     (KEY_USR_ALL & ~KEY_USR_SETATTR),
-			     KEY_ALLOC_NOT_IN_QUOTA, NULL, NULL);
-	return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(nfs_keyring);
-}
-
-static void nfs_exit_keyring(void)
-{
-	key_put(nfs_keyring);
-}
-#else
-static inline int nfs_init_keyring(void)
-{
-	return 0;
-}
-
-static inline void nfs_exit_keyring(void)
-{
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_KEYS */
-
 /*
  * Initialize NFS
  */
@@ -2716,13 +2730,9 @@ static int __init init_nfs_fs(void)
 {
 	int err;
 
-	err = nfs_init_keyring();
-	if (err)
-		return err;
-
 	err = nfs_sysfs_init();
 	if (err < 0)
-		goto err_keyring;
+		return err;
 
 	err = register_pernet_subsys(&nfs_net_ops);
 	if (err < 0)
@@ -2779,8 +2789,6 @@ static int __init init_nfs_fs(void)
 	unregister_pernet_subsys(&nfs_net_ops);
 err_sysfs:
 	nfs_sysfs_exit();
-err_keyring:
-	nfs_exit_keyring();
 	return err;
 }
 
@@ -2796,7 +2804,6 @@ static void __exit exit_nfs_fs(void)
 	nfs_fs_proc_exit();
 	nfsiod_stop();
 	nfs_sysfs_exit();
-	nfs_exit_keyring();
 }
 
 /* Not quite true; I just maintain it */
diff --git a/fs/nfs/netns.h b/fs/nfs/netns.h
index 36658579100d..da0854510404 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/netns.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/netns.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ struct bl_dev_msg {
 	uint32_t major, minor;
 };
 
+struct key;
 struct nfs_netns_client;
 
 struct nfs_net {
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ struct nfs_net {
 #endif /* CONFIG_NFS_V4 */
 	struct nfs_netns_client *nfs_client;
 	spinlock_t nfs_client_lock;
+	struct key *nfs_keyring;
 	ktime_t boot_time;
 	struct rpc_stat rpcstats;
 #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18 14:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-18 14:05 [PATCH RFC 0/5] NFS: isolate mTLS client credentials by network namespace Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 14:05 ` [PATCH RFC 1/5] NFS: name the init_nfs_fs() error labels Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 14:05 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-09-18 14:44   ` [PATCH RFC 2/5] NFS: allocate the .nfs keyring per network namespace Hannes Reinecke
2026-09-18 15:15     ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-19 16:22     ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 14:05 ` [PATCH RFC 3/5] SUNRPC: pass a keyring serial to the TLS handshake Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 14:05 ` [PATCH RFC 4/5] NFS: name the namespace .nfs keyring in the x509 handshake Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 14:05 ` [PATCH RFC 5/5] NFS: add a key type that reveals the namespace .nfs keyring serial Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 18:00   ` Randy Dunlap
2026-09-19 15:59     ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-18 17:21 ` [PATCH RFC 0/5] NFS: isolate mTLS client credentials by network namespace Benjamin Coddington
2026-09-19 15:46   ` Chuck Lever
2026-09-21  8:45   ` Hannes Reinecke
2026-09-21 11:17     ` Benjamin Coddington

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