kernel.git/fs/smb/server/connection.h, branch master

ksmbd: add procfs interface for runtime monitoring and statistics

2026-02-09T02:25:16Z

This patch introduces a /proc filesystem interface to ksmbd, providing visibility into the internal state of the SMB server. This allows administrators and developers to monitor active connections, user sessions, and opened files in real-time without relying on external tools or heavy debugging. Key changes include: - Connection Monitoring (/proc/fs/ksmbd/clients): Displays a list of active network connections, including client IP addresses, SMB dialects, credits, and last active timestamps. - Session Management (/proc/fs/ksmbd/sessions/): Adds a global sessions file to list all authenticated users and their session IDs. - Creates individual session entries (e.g., /proc/fs/ksmbd/sessions/) detailing capabilities (DFS, Multi-channel, etc.), signing/encryption algorithms, and connected tree shares. - File Tracking (/proc/fs/ksmbd/files): Shows all currently opened files across the server, including tree IDs, process IDs (PID), access modes (daccess/saccess), and oplock/lease states. - Statistics & Counters: Implements internal counters for global server metrics, such as the number of tree connections, total sessions, and processed read/write bytes. Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee Signed-off-by: Bahubali B Gumaji Signed-off-by: Sang-Soo Lee Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: replace connection list with hash table

2025-10-01T02:37:55Z

Replace connection list with hash table to improve lookup performance. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

smb: server: make use of common smbdirect.h

2025-09-28T23:29:51Z

Cc: Steve French Cc: Tom Talpey Cc: Long Li Cc: Namjae Jeon Cc: Hyunchul Lee Cc: Meetakshi Setiya Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher Acked-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: extend the connection limiting mechanism to support IPv6

2025-08-17T23:23:22Z

Update the connection tracking logic to handle both IPv4 and IPv6 address families. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e6bb91939740 ("ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP") Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP

2025-08-07T23:22:58Z

Repeated connections from clients with the same IP address may exhaust the max connections and prevent other normal client connections. This patch limit repeated connections from clients with the same IP. Reported-by: tianshuo han Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: add free_transport ops in ksmbd connection

2025-06-17T21:26:44Z

free_transport function for tcp connection can be called from smbdirect. It will cause kernel oops. This patch add free_transport ops in ksmbd connection, and add each free_transports for tcp and smbdirect. Fixes: 21a4e47578d4 ("ksmbd: fix use-after-free in __smb2_lease_break_noti()") Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: provide zero as a unique ID to the Mac client

2025-05-27T15:25:12Z

The Mac SMB client code seems to expect the on-disk file identifier to have the semantics of HFS+ Catalog Node Identifier (CNID). ksmbd provides the inode number as a unique ID to the client, but in the case of subvolumes of btrfs, there are cases where different files have the same inode number, so the mac smb client treats it as an error. There is a report that a similar problem occurs when the share is ZFS. Returning UniqueId of zero will make the Mac client to stop using and trusting the file id returned from the server. Reported-by: Justin Turner Arthur Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: fix null pointer dereference in alloc_preauth_hash()

2025-04-02T04:02:20Z

The Client send malformed smb2 negotiate request. ksmbd return error response. Subsequently, the client can send smb2 session setup even thought conn->preauth_info is not allocated. This patch add KSMBD_SESS_NEED_SETUP status of connection to ignore session setup request if smb2 negotiate phase is not complete. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Steve French Reported-by: zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com # ZDI-CAN-26505 Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: prevent connection release during oplock break notification

2025-03-10T17:54:32Z

ksmbd_work could be freed when after connection release. Increment r_count of ksmbd_conn to indicate that requests are not finished yet and to not release the connection. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Norbert Szetei Tested-by: Norbert Szetei Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: fix broken transfers when exceeding max simultaneous operations

2024-12-16T04:20:03Z

Since commit 0a77d947f599 ("ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations"), ksmbd enforces a maximum number of simultaneous operations for a connection. The problem is that reaching the limit causes ksmbd to close the socket, and the client has no indication that it should have slowed down. This behaviour can be reproduced by setting "smb2 max credits = 128" (or lower), and transferring a large file (25GB). smbclient fails as below: $ smbclient //192.168.1.254/testshare -U user%pass smb: \> put file.bin cli_push returned NT_STATUS_USER_SESSION_DELETED putting file file.bin as \file.bin smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR closing remote file \file.bin smb: \> smb2cli_req_compound_submit: Insufficient credits. 0 available, 1 needed Windows clients fail with 0x8007003b (with smaller files even). Fix this by delaying reading from the socket until there's room to allocate a request. This effectively applies backpressure on the client, so the transfer completes, albeit at a slower rate. Fixes: 0a77d947f599 ("ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations") Signed-off-by: Marios Makassikis Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French