[PATCH] fs/ceph/ioctl: add owner/capability checks for CEPH_IOC_SET_LAYOUT*

From: Max Kellermann

Date: Tue Jul 21 2026 - 02:21:26 EST


These permission checks were already missing in the initial
impementation of these ioctls. This Ceph allows any user who owns a
file descriptor to manipulate the layout of any file, even if they
don't have write permissions.

It might be a good idea to guard other ioctls with permission checks
as well or even disallow regular users (even if they own the file) to
manipulate layout settings completely, as this may be abused to DoS
the Ceph servers, but right now, I find it most urgent to have setter
checks at all.

Fixes: 8f4e91dee2a2 ("ceph: ioctls")
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Note: this is a resend. I had already sent this to security@xxxxxxx
and security@xxxxxxxxxx on 2024-11-25, but the Ceph maintainers
thought it was "not a big problem". It was never merged.
---
fs/ceph/ioctl.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ceph/ioctl.c b/fs/ceph/ioctl.c
index 15cde055f3da..de07f19b0caa 100644
--- a/fs/ceph/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ceph/ioctl.c
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ static long ceph_ioctl_set_layout(struct file *file, void __user *arg)
struct ceph_ioctl_layout nl;
int err;

+ if (!inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode))
+ return -EACCES;
+
if (copy_from_user(&l, arg, sizeof(l)))
return -EFAULT;

@@ -142,6 +145,9 @@ static long ceph_ioctl_set_layout_policy (struct file *file, void __user *arg)
int err;
struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc = ceph_sb_to_fs_client(inode->i_sb)->mdsc;

+ if (!inode_owner_or_capable(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode))
+ return -EACCES;
+
/* copy and validate */
if (copy_from_user(&l, arg, sizeof(l)))
return -EFAULT;
--
2.47.3