FAILED: patch "[PATCH] mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e187bc02f8fa4226d62814592cf064ee4557c470
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026071536-chirpy-unmindful-fd3a@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e187bc02f8fa4226d62814592cf064ee4557c470 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:38:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap

Ever since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for
side-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done
against the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's
idmap.  This results in odd edgecases like:

1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1
2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA
on-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation
3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied

In the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,
because file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses
the proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a
0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to
it.

Since this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a
file_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch
the various users in mm to it.

The issue was found by manual code inspection & an off-list discussion
with Jan Kara.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260625153853.913949-1-pfalcato@suse.de
Fixes: 9caccd41541a ("fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP")
Signed-off-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index d10897b3a1e3..50ce731a2b78 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2444,6 +2444,11 @@ static inline struct mnt_idmap *file_mnt_idmap(const struct file *file)
 	return mnt_idmap(file->f_path.mnt);
 }
 
+static inline bool file_owner_or_capable(const struct file *file)
+{
+	return inode_owner_or_capable(file_mnt_idmap(file), file_inode(file));
+}
+
 /**
  * is_idmapped_mnt - check whether a mount is mapped
  * @mnt: the mount to check
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 5af62e6abca5..58eb9d240643 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -4704,7 +4704,7 @@ static inline bool can_do_cachestat(struct file *f)
 {
 	if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
 		return true;
-	if (inode_owner_or_capable(file_mnt_idmap(f), file_inode(f)))
+	if (file_owner_or_capable(f))
 		return true;
 	return file_permission(f, MAY_WRITE) == 0;
 }
diff --git a/mm/madvise.c b/mm/madvise.c
index cd9bb077072c..77552b03d318 100644
--- a/mm/madvise.c
+++ b/mm/madvise.c
@@ -336,8 +336,7 @@ static inline bool can_do_file_pageout(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	 * otherwise we'd be including shared non-exclusive mappings, which
 	 * opens a side channel.
 	 */
-	return inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap,
-				      file_inode(vma->vm_file)) ||
+	return file_owner_or_capable(vma->vm_file) ||
 	       file_permission(vma->vm_file, MAY_WRITE) == 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/mm/mincore.c b/mm/mincore.c
index 296f2e3922b5..c8757c5085bf 100644
--- a/mm/mincore.c
+++ b/mm/mincore.c
@@ -227,8 +227,7 @@ static inline bool can_do_mincore(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	 * for writing; otherwise we'd be including shared non-exclusive
 	 * mappings, which opens a side channel.
 	 */
-	return inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap,
-				      file_inode(vma->vm_file)) ||
+	return file_owner_or_capable(vma->vm_file) ||
 	       file_permission(vma->vm_file, MAY_WRITE) == 0;
 }