kernel.git/fs/cifs/readdir.c, branch linux-5.4.y

smb: client: Reset all search buffer pointers when releasing buffer

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

commit e48f9d849bfdec276eebf782a84fd4dfbe1c14c0 upstream. Multiple pointers in struct cifs_search_info (ntwrk_buf_start, srch_entries_start, and last_entry) point to the same allocated buffer. However, when freeing this buffer, only ntwrk_buf_start was set to NULL, while the other pointers remained pointing to freed memory. This is defensive programming to prevent potential issues with stale pointers. While the active UAF vulnerability is fixed by the previous patch, this change ensures consistent pointer state and more robust error handling. Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

smb: client: Fix use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent

2025-06-04T12:32:36Z

commit a7a8fe56e932a36f43e031b398aef92341bf5ea0 upstream. There is a race condition in the readdir concurrency process, which may access the rsp buffer after it has been released, triggering the following KASAN warning. ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880099b819c by task a.out/342975 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 342975 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.15.0-rc6+ #240 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70 print_report+0xce/0x640 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 cifs_fill_dirent+0xb03/0xb60 [cifs] cifs_readdir+0x12cb/0x3190 [cifs] iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520 __x64_sys_getdents+0x134/0x220 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e RIP: 0033:0x7f996f64b9f9 Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 0d f7 c3 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 8 RSP: 002b:00007f996f53de78 EFLAGS: 00000207 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000004e RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f996f53ecdc RCX: 00007f996f64b9f9 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: 00007f996f53dea0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000207 R12: ffffffffffffff88 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007ffc8cd9a500 R15: 00007f996f51e000 Allocated by task 408: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x117/0x3d0 mempool_alloc_noprof+0xf2/0x2c0 cifs_buf_get+0x36/0x80 [cifs] allocate_buffers+0x1d2/0x330 [cifs] cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x22b/0x2690 [cifs] kthread+0x394/0x720 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x70 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Freed by task 342979: kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 __kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50 kmem_cache_free+0x2b8/0x500 cifs_buf_release+0x3c/0x70 [cifs] cifs_readdir+0x1c97/0x3190 [cifs] iterate_dir+0x1a1/0x520 __x64_sys_getdents64+0x134/0x220 do_syscall_64+0x4b/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880099b8000 which belongs to the cache cifs_request of size 16588 The buggy address is located 412 bytes inside of freed 16588-byte region [ffff8880099b8000, ffff8880099bc0cc) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x99b8 head: order:3 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 anon flags: 0x80000000000040(head|node=0|zone=1) page_type: f5(slab) raw: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0080000000000040 ffff888001e03400 0000000000000000 dead000000000001 head: 0000000000000000 0000000000010001 00000000f5000000 0000000000000000 head: 0080000000000003 ffffea0000266e01 00000000ffffffff 00000000ffffffff head: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000008 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8880099b8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8880099b8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb >ffff8880099b8180: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff8880099b8200: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8880099b8280: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ================================================================== POC is available in the link [1]. The problem triggering process is as follows: Process 1 Process 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- cifs_readdir /* file->private_data == NULL */ initiate_cifs_search cifsFile = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cifsFileInfo), GFP_KERNEL); smb2_query_dir_first ->query_dir_first() SMB2_query_directory SMB2_query_directory_init cifs_send_recv smb2_parse_query_directory srch_inf->ntwrk_buf_start = (char *)rsp; srch_inf->srch_entries_start = (char *)rsp + ... srch_inf->last_entry = (char *)rsp + ... srch_inf->smallBuf = true; find_cifs_entry /* if (cfile->srch_inf.ntwrk_buf_start) */ cifs_small_buf_release(cfile->srch_inf // free cifs_readdir ->iterate_shared() /* file->private_data != NULL */ find_cifs_entry /* in while (...) loop */ smb2_query_dir_next ->query_dir_next() SMB2_query_directory SMB2_query_directory_init cifs_send_recv compound_send_recv smb_send_rqst __smb_send_rqst rc = -ERESTARTSYS; /* if (fatal_signal_pending()) */ goto out; return rc /* if (cfile->srch_inf.last_entry) */ cifs_save_resume_key() cifs_fill_dirent // UAF /* if (rc) */ return -ENOENT; Fix this by ensuring the return code is checked before using pointers from the srch_inf. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220131 [1] Fixes: a364bc0b37f1 ("[CIFS] fix saving of resume key before CIFSFindNext") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cifs: check ntwrk_buf_start for NULL before dereferencing it

2018-12-24T04:41:31Z

RHBZ: 1021460 There is an issue where when multiple threads open/close the same directory ntwrk_buf_start might end up being NULL, causing the call to smbCalcSize later to oops with a NULL deref. The real bug is why this happens and why this can become NULL for an open cfile, which should not be allowed. This patch tries to avoid a oops until the time when we fix the underlying issue. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg Signed-off-by: Steve French

cifs: prevent integer overflow in nxt_dir_entry()

2018-09-12T14:27:57Z

The "old_entry + le32_to_cpu(pDirInfo->NextEntryOffset)" can wrap around so I have added a check for integer overflow. Reported-by: Dr Silvio Cesare of InfoSect Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Steve French CC: Stable

cifs: update calc_size to take a server argument

2018-05-27T22:56:35Z

and change the smb2 version to take heder_preamble_size into account instead of hardcoding it as 4 bytes. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg Signed-off-by: Steve French

cifs: initialize file_info_lock

2017-01-14T20:58:29Z

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton CC: Stable file_info_lock is not initalized in initiate_cifs_search(), leading to the following splat after a simple "mount.cifs ... dir && ls dir/": BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, ls/486 lock: 0xffff880009301110, .magic: 00000000, .owner: /-1, .owner_cpu: 0 CPU: 0 PID: 486 Comm: ls Not tainted 4.9.0 #27 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ffffc900042f3db0 ffffffff81327533 0000000000000000 ffff880009301110 ffffc900042f3dd0 ffffffff810baf75 ffff880009301110 ffffffff817ae077 ffffc900042f3df0 ffffffff810baff6 ffff880009301110 ffff880008d69900 Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x65/0x92 [] spin_dump+0x85/0xe0 [] spin_bug+0x26/0x30 [] do_raw_spin_lock+0xe9/0x130 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x1f/0x30 [] cifs_closedir+0x4d/0x100 [] __fput+0x5d/0x160 [] ____fput+0xe/0x10 [] task_work_run+0x7e/0xa0 [] exit_to_usermode_loop+0x92/0xa0 [] syscall_return_slowpath+0x49/0x50 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0xa7/0xa9 Fixes: 3afca265b5f53a0 ("Clarify locking of cifs file and tcon structures and make more granular") Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Steve French

Clarify locking of cifs file and tcon structures and make more granular

2016-10-12T17:08:32Z

Remove the global file_list_lock to simplify cifs/smb3 locking and have spinlocks that more closely match the information they are protecting. Add new tcon->open_file_lock and file->file_info_lock spinlocks. Locks continue to follow a heirachy, cifs_socket --> cifs_ses --> cifs_tcon --> cifs_file where global tcp_ses_lock still protects socket and cifs_ses, while the the newer locks protect the lower level structure's information (tcon and cifs_file respectively). CC: Stable Signed-off-by: Steve French Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel Reviewed-by: Germano Percossi

cifs: Use file_dentry()

2016-05-17T19:09:33Z

CIFS may be used as lower layer of overlayfs and accessing f_path.dentry can lead to a crash. Fix by replacing direct access of file->f_path.dentry with the file_dentry() accessor, which will always return a native object. Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar Signed-off-by: Steve French

cifs: switch to ->iterate_shared()

2016-05-02T23:49:31Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

don't bother with ->d_inode->i_sb - it's always equal to ->d_sb

2016-04-10T21:11:51Z

... and neither can ever be NULL Signed-off-by: Al Viro