+ unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: unshare: fix nsproxy leak on set_cred_ucounts() error path
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Subject: unshare: fix nsproxy leak on set_cred_ucounts() error path
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:45:50 +0800

If unshare_nsproxy_namespaces() successfully creates the new_nsproxy, but
then set_cred_ucounts() fails, on its error path there is no cleanup for
new_nsproxy, so it is leaked.  Let's fix that by freeing new_nsproxy if
it's not NULL on this error path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251118064552.936962-1-ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com
Fixes: 905ae01c4ae2a ("Add a reference to ucounts for each cred")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/fork.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/fork.c~unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path
+++ a/kernel/fork.c
@@ -3133,8 +3133,11 @@ int ksys_unshare(unsigned long unshare_f
 
 	if (new_cred) {
 		err = set_cred_ucounts(new_cred);
-		if (err)
+		if (err) {
+			if (new_nsproxy)
+				free_nsproxy(new_nsproxy);
 			goto bad_unshare_cleanup_cred;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (new_fs || new_fd || do_sysvsem || new_cred || new_nsproxy) {
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com are

unshare-fix-nsproxy-leak-on-set_cred_ucounts-error-path.patch