ipc: drop the mqueue mount with kern_unmount() on setup failure

mq_init_ns() creates the mqueue mount with fc_mount_longterm(), so its
->mnt_ns is MNT_NS_INTERNAL. When setting up the mqueue or ipc sysctls
or msg_init_ns() fails afterwards, create_ipc_ns() drops it with a plain
mntput(). With ->mnt_ns set that takes the fast path of
mntput_no_expire(). The count drops to zero and nothing ever kills the
mount, so the mount and the mqueue superblock are leaked.

Commit dc55e35f9e ("ipc: Store mqueue sysctls in the ipc namespace")
added the first failure path after mq_init_ns() and never dropped the
mount. Commit 7229d74e5e ("ipc: create_ipc_ns: drop mqueue mount on
sysctl setup failure") tried to fix that with a mntput() but that
doesn't help for a long-term mount.

Use kern_unmount(). free_ipc() open-codes the same thing for a namespace
that made it.

Fixes: dc55e35f9e ("ipc: Store mqueue sysctls in the ipc namespace")
Fixes: 7229d74e5e ("ipc: create_ipc_ns: drop mqueue mount on sysctl setup failure")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261009-work-fixes-rcu-v1-5-7446d2d335e6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
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Christian Brauner 2026-10-09 23:51:55 +02:00
parent 6e6928b396
commit f0e48172a5
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@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ static struct ipc_namespace *create_ipc_ns(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
fail_mq_sysctls:
retire_mq_sysctls(ns);
fail_mq_mount:
mntput(ns->mq_mnt);
kern_unmount(ns->mq_mnt);
fail_put:
put_user_ns(ns->user_ns);
ns_common_free(ns);