Don't return the return value of down_read_killable() (0) when a ptrace access check fails, return -EACCES as intended. Reported-by: Magnus Lindholm Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260706170735.2941493-1-linmag7@gmail.com Fixes: 6650527444da ("proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (part 1)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jann Horn --- fs/proc/namespaces.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/namespaces.c b/fs/proc/namespaces.c index 2f46f1396744..ea6ec61a0430 100644 --- a/fs/proc/namespaces.c +++ b/fs/proc/namespaces.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static const char *proc_ns_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, const struct proc_ns_operations *ns_ops = PROC_I(inode)->ns_ops; struct task_struct *task; struct path ns_path; - int error = -EACCES; + int error; if (!dentry) return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static const char *proc_ns_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, if (error) goto out_put_task; + error = -EACCES; if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) goto out; @@ -90,6 +91,7 @@ static int proc_ns_readlink(struct dentry *dentry, char __user *buffer, int bufl if (res) goto out_put_task; + res = -EACCES; if (ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS)) { res = ns_get_name(name, sizeof(name), task, ns_ops); if (res >= 0) --- base-commit: 8cdeaa50eae8dad34885515f62559ee83e7e8dda change-id: 20260706-procfs-ns-eacces-fix-3abd8e307936 Best regards, -- Jann Horn