This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Fix user namespace leak to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fix-user-namespace-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0259296c9e864c0024545702017f4f1de8957f81 Author: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Oct 14 18:02:30 2021 +0200 Fix user namespace leak [ Upstream commit d5f458a979650e5ed37212f6134e4ee2b28cb6ed ] Fixes: 61ca2c4afd9d ("NFS: Only reference user namespace from nfs4idmap struct instead of cred") Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4idmap.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4idmap.c index 8d8aba305ecca..f331866dd4182 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4idmap.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4idmap.c @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ nfs_idmap_new(struct nfs_client *clp) err_destroy_pipe: rpc_destroy_pipe_data(idmap->idmap_pipe); err: - get_user_ns(idmap->user_ns); + put_user_ns(idmap->user_ns); kfree(idmap); return error; }