CVE-2026-72379
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: refuse O_TMPFILE creation with an unmapped fsuid or fsgid vfs_tmpfile() never checked that the caller's fsuid and fsgid map into the filesystem. On an idmapped mount whose idmapping does not cover the caller's fs{u,g}id, the ->tmpfile() instance initializes the new inode through inode_init_owner(), where mapped_fsuid()/mapped_fsgid() return INVALID_UID/INVALID_GID, and the tmpfile ends up owned by (uid_t)-1. Every other creation path already refuses this: may_o_create() (O_CREAT) and may_create_dentry() (mkdir, mknod, symlink, link) bail out with -EOVERFLOW via fsuidgid_has_mapping() precisely so that an object cannot be created with an owner the filesystem cannot represent. An O_TMPFILE is no exception: it is created I_LINKABLE and linkat(2) can splice it into the namespace afterwards, so the same guarantee must hold. Add the missing fsuidgid_has_mapping() check to vfs_tmpfile(). On a non-idmapped mount the caller's fs{u,g}id always map in the superblock's user namespace, so this is a no-op there and only takes effect on an idmapped mount that does not map the caller. It applies to every filesystem that sets FS_ALLOW_IDMAP and implements ->tmpfile() (tmpfs, ext4, btrfs, xfs, f2fs, ...), and to overlayfs, whose upper-layer tmpfile creation funnels through vfs_tmpfile() via backing_tmpfile_open().
How to fix
- Linux Linux74365c6e367725728d5ce36d38ca116c9f77a254, bac8fb0d60254846f3b56957435dcd870ae12948, 503d0568a525b168d9aa5ca046ec72fc5477df84, a2038514e69371eb493083a6a897ed20fcbb8acb, 47e434da476b5a8bcd1e6e52ab03c5ee7764ee78, 539dce1144651f7976fa418e618b0b574bf15eeb or later
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux | 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < 74365c6e367725728d5ce36d38ca116c9f77a254, 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < bac8fb0d60254846f3b56957435dcd870ae12948, 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < 503d0568a525b168d9aa5ca046ec72fc5477df84, 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < a2038514e69371eb493083a6a897ed20fcbb8acb, 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < 47e434da476b5a8bcd1e6e52ab03c5ee7764ee78, 8e5389132ab429604c1a2459b52f0c849a71cc61 ≤ v < 539dce1144651f7976fa418e618b0b574bf15eeb, 5.13 | 74365c6e367725728d5ce36d38ca116c9f77a254, bac8fb0d60254846f3b56957435dcd870ae12948, 503d0568a525b168d9aa5ca046ec72fc5477df84, a2038514e69371eb493083a6a897ed20fcbb8acb, 47e434da476b5a8bcd1e6e52ab03c5ee7764ee78, 539dce1144651f7976fa418e618b0b574bf15eeb |
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