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Commit8ed1f0e22f("fs/fuse: fix ioctl type confusion") fixed a type confusion bug by adding an ->f_op comparison. Based on some off-list discussion back then, another check was added to compare the f_cred->user_ns. This is not for security reasons, but was based on the idea that a FUSE device FD should be using the UID/GID mappings of its f_cred->user_ns, and those translations are done using fc->user_ns, which matches the f_cred->user_ns of the initial FUSE device FD thanks to the check in fuse_fill_super(). See also commit8cb08329b0("fuse: Support fuse filesystems outside of init_user_ns"). But FUSE_DEV_IOC_CLONE is, at a higher level, a *cloning* operation that copies an existing context (with a weird API that involves first opening /dev/fuse, then tying the resulting new FUSE device FD to an existing FUSE instance). So if an application is already passing FUSE FDs across userns boundaries and dealing with the resulting ID mapping complications somehow, it doesn't make much sense to block this cloning operation. I've heard that this check is an obstacle for some folks, and I don't see a good reason to keep it, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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