queue-6.12/debugfs-fix-mount-options-not-being-applied.patch

From ba6cc29351b1fa0cb9adce91b88b9f3c3cbe9c46 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:14:37 +0000
Subject: debugfs: fix mount options not being applied

From: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>

commit ba6cc29351b1fa0cb9adce91b88b9f3c3cbe9c46 upstream.

Mount options (uid, gid, mode) are silently ignored when debugfs is
mounted. This is a regression introduced during the conversion to the
new mount API.

When the mount API conversion was done, the parsed options were never
applied to the superblock when it was reused. As a result, the mount
options were ignored when debugfs was mounted.

Fix this by following the same pattern as the tracefs fix in commit
e4d32142d1de ("tracing: Fix tracefs mount options"). Call
debugfs_reconfigure() in debugfs_get_tree() to apply the mount options
to the superblock after it has been created or reused.

As an example, with the bug the "mode" mount option is ignored:

  $ mount -o mode=0666 -t debugfs debugfs /tmp/debugfs_test
  $ mount | grep debugfs_test
  debugfs on /tmp/debugfs_test type debugfs (rw,relatime)
  $ ls -ld /tmp/debugfs_test
  drwx------ 25 root root 0 Aug  4 14:16 /tmp/debugfs_test

With the fix applied, it works as expected:

  $ mount -o mode=0666 -t debugfs debugfs /tmp/debugfs_test
  $ mount | grep debugfs_test
  debugfs on /tmp/debugfs_test type debugfs (rw,relatime,mode=666)
  $ ls -ld /tmp/debugfs_test
  drw-rw-rw- 37 root root 0 Aug  2 17:28 /tmp/debugfs_test

Fixes: a20971c18752 ("vfs: Convert debugfs to use the new mount API")
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220406
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250816-debugfs-mount-opts-v3-1-d271dad57b5b@posteo.net
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/debugfs/inode.c |   11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ static int debugfs_reconfigure(struct fs
 	struct debugfs_fs_info *sb_opts = sb->s_fs_info;
 	struct debugfs_fs_info *new_opts = fc->s_fs_info;
 
+	if (!new_opts)
+		return 0;
+
 	sync_filesystem(sb);
 
 	/* structure copy of new mount options to sb */
@@ -269,10 +272,16 @@ static int debugfs_fill_super(struct sup
 
 static int debugfs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
 {
+	int err;
+
 	if (!(debugfs_allow & DEBUGFS_ALLOW_API))
 		return -EPERM;
 
-	return get_tree_single(fc, debugfs_fill_super);
+	err = get_tree_single(fc, debugfs_fill_super);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	return debugfs_reconfigure(fc);
 }
 
 static void debugfs_free_fc(struct fs_context *fc)