From: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] lsm: always call the namespace_free hook
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:48:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sashiko-outbox-189678@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261029-work-security-namespace_free-v2-1-65591dbba7b3@kernel.org>
> security_namespace_free() returns early if ns->ns_security is NULL and
> skips the namespace_free hook. But ns->ns_security is only allocated if
> an LSM requests a namespace blob via lbs_ns and currently no LSM does.
> So the namespace_free hook is never called at all.
>
> Landlock only uses namespace_init and namespace_install so it doesn't
> care. But the bpf LSM attaches to every hook and a program attached to
> namespace_free never runs. We want to use it in systemd-nsresourced to
> get notified when a user namespace goes away. Right now it has to kprobe
> retire_userns_sysctls() for that.
>
> Note that a bpf program can't work around this. The size of the
> namespace blob is fixed at boot and the bpf LSM doesn't request one.
> And security_namespace_init() allocates the blob before the
> namespace_init hooks are called anyway.
> [ ... ]
> after: @init: 200 @free: 200
>
> Fixes: f675d2e95569 ("lsm: add LSM blob and hooks for namespaces")
> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> # mainline only
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-29 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-29 16:40 [PATCH v2 0/7] ns: fixes for the namespace LSM hooks Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] lsm: always call the namespace_free hook Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:48 ` sashiko-bot [this message]
2026-10-29 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] bpf: don't mark namespace_init and namespace_free arguments as trusted Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] selftests/bpf: add verifier tests for the namespace LSM hooks Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:46 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 16:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] ns: allocate the namespace id before the namespace_init hook Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:51 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 22:13 ` Mickaël Salaün
2026-10-29 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] nstree: drop ns_tree_add_raw() Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:49 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] lsm: fix the security_namespace_init() kernel-doc Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 16:41 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] selftests/bpf: add a lifecycle test for the namespace LSM hooks Christian Brauner
2026-10-29 16:55 ` sashiko-bot
2026-10-29 21:06 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] ns: fixes " Paul Moore
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