Forwarded: [PATCH] nsfs: validate file handle type in nsfs_fh_to_dentry()

syzbot
2025-09-20T08:11:42Z

Subject: [PATCH] nsfs: validate file handle type in nsfs_fh_to_dentry()
Author: kartikey406@gmail.com

#syz test: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master

Add early validation of file handle type in nsfs_fh_to_dentry() to
prevent processing of handles with incorrect types. This fixes a
warning triggered when open_by_handle_at() is called with non-nsfs
handle types on nsfs files.

The issue occurs when a user provides a file handle with a type
like FILEID_INO32_GEN_PARENT (0xf1) instead of FILEID_NSFS when
calling open_by_handle_at() on an nsfs file. The generic export
code routes this to nsfs_fh_to_dentry(), which then processes
the incorrectly formatted handle data, leading to validation
warnings.

Reported-by: syzbot+9eefe09bedd093f156c2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Deepanshu Kartikey <kartikey406@gmail.com>
---
fs/nsfs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
index 32cb8c835a2b..050e7db80297 100644
--- a/fs/nsfs.c
+++ b/fs/nsfs.c
@@ -461,6 +461,8 @@ static int nsfs_encode_fh(struct inode *inode, u32 *fh, int *max_len,
static struct dentry *nsfs_fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb, struct fid *fh,
int fh_len, int fh_type)
{
+ if (fh_type != FILEID_NSFS)
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
struct path path __free(path_put) = {};
struct nsfs_file_handle *fid = (struct nsfs_file_handle *)fh;
struct user_namespace *owning_ns = NULL;
--
2.43.0