CVE-2025-40362

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ceph: fix multifs mds auth caps issue

The mds auth caps check should also validate the fsname along with the associated caps. Not doing so would result in applying the mds auth caps of one fs on to the other fs in a multifs ceph cluster. The bug causes multiple issues w.r.t user authentication, following is one such example.

Steps to Reproduce (on vstart cluster):

1. Create two file systems in a cluster, say fsname1 and fsname2
2. Authorize read only permission to the user client.usr on fs fsname1 $ceph fs authorize fsname1 client.usr / r
3. Authorize read and write permission to the same user client.usr on fs fsname2 $ceph fs authorize fsname2 client.usr / rw
4. Update the keyring $ceph auth get client.usr » ./keyring

With above permssions for the user client.usr, following is the expectation. a. The client.usr should be able to only read the contents and not allowed to create or delete files on file system fsname1. b. The client.usr should be able to read/write on file system fsname2.

But, with this bug, the client.usr is allowed to read/write on file system fsname1. See below.

5. Mount the file system fsname1 with the user client.usr $sudo bin/mount.ceph usr@.fsname1=/ /kmnt_fsname1_usr/
6. Try creating a file on file system fsname1 with user client.usr. This should fail but passes with this bug. $touch /kmnt_fsname1_usr/file1
7. Mount the file system fsname1 with the user client.admin and create a file. $sudo bin/mount.ceph admin@.fsname1=/ /kmnt_fsname1_admin $echo data > /kmnt_fsname1_admin/admin_file1
8. Try removing an existing file on file system fsname1 with the user client.usr. This shoudnt succeed but succeeds with the bug. $rm -f /kmnt_fsname1_usr/admin_file1

For more information, please take a look at the corresponding mds/fuse patch and tests added by looking into the tracker mentioned below.

v2: Fix a possible null dereference in doutc v3: Dont store fsname from mdsmap, validate against ceph_mount_optionss fsname and use it v4: Code refactor, better warning message and fix possible compiler warning

[ Slava.Dubeyko: fsname check failed -> fsname mismatch ]

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07640d34a781bb2e39020a39137073c03c4aa932
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22c73d52a6d05c5a2053385c0d6cd9984732799d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ca3da8b27ab9a0923ad477447cfb8fc7f4b4c523