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From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: misanjum@linux.ibm.com, NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1 2/2] NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:50:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260219215017.1769-3-cel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260219215017.1769-1-cel@kernel.org>

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

The /proc/fs/nfs/exports proc entry is created at module init
and persists for the module's lifetime. exports_proc_open()
captures the caller's current network namespace and stores
its svc_export_cache in seq->private, but takes no reference
on the namespace. If the namespace is subsequently torn down
(e.g. container destruction after the opener does setns() to a
different namespace), nfsd_net_exit() calls nfsd_export_shutdown()
which frees the cache. Subsequent reads on the still-open fd
dereference the freed cache_detail, walking a freed hash table.

Hold a reference on the struct net for the lifetime of the open
file descriptor. This prevents nfsd_net_exit() from running --
and thus prevents nfsd_export_shutdown() from freeing the cache
-- while any exports fd is open. cache_detail already stores
its net pointer (cd->net, set by cache_create_net()), so
exports_release() can retrieve it without additional per-file
storage.

Reported-by: Misbah Anjum N <misanjum@linux.ibm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/dcd371d3a95815a84ba7de52cef447b8@linux.ibm.com/
Fixes: 96d851c4d28d ("nfsd: use proper net while reading "exports" file")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 4166f59908f4..3d5a676e1d14 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -149,9 +149,19 @@ static int exports_net_open(struct net *net, struct file *file)
 
 	seq = file->private_data;
 	seq->private = nn->svc_export_cache;
+	get_net(net);
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int exports_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
+{
+	struct seq_file *seq = file->private_data;
+	struct cache_detail *cd = seq->private;
+
+	put_net(cd->net);
+	return seq_release(inode, file);
+}
+
 static int exports_nfsd_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
 	return exports_net_open(inode->i_sb->s_fs_info, file);
@@ -161,7 +171,7 @@ static const struct file_operations exports_nfsd_operations = {
 	.open		= exports_nfsd_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
-	.release	= seq_release,
+	.release	= exports_release,
 };
 
 static int export_features_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
@@ -1376,7 +1386,7 @@ static const struct proc_ops exports_proc_ops = {
 	.proc_open	= exports_proc_open,
 	.proc_read	= seq_read,
 	.proc_lseek	= seq_lseek,
-	.proc_release	= seq_release,
+	.proc_release	= exports_release,
 };
 
 static int create_proc_exports_entry(void)
-- 
2.53.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-19 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-19 21:50 [PATCH v1 0/2] Address UAF in sunrpc cache show callbacks Chuck Lever
2026-02-19 21:50 ` [PATCH v1 1/2] NFSD: Defer sub-object cleanup in export put callbacks Chuck Lever
2026-02-20 15:50   ` Jeff Layton
2026-02-25 18:29     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2026-02-25 18:53       ` Chuck Lever
2026-02-19 21:50 ` Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-02-20 15:52   ` [PATCH v1 2/2] NFSD: Hold net reference for the lifetime of /proc/fs/nfs/exports fd Jeff Layton
2026-02-25 18:29     ` Olga Kornievskaia
2026-02-21 22:57 ` [PATCH v1 0/2] Address UAF in sunrpc cache show callbacks NeilBrown
2026-02-22 15:41   ` Chuck Lever

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