From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
Pierguido Lambri <plambri@redhat.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>,
"Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat)" <pc@manguebit.org>,
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.15 118/178] smb: client: fix native SMB symlink traversal
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 18:22:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250708162239.691314084@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250708162236.549307806@linuxfoundation.org>
6.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
[ Upstream commit 3363da82e02f1bddc54faa92ea430c6532e2cd2e ]
We've seen customers having shares mounted in paths like /??/C:/ or
/??/UNC/foo.example.com/share in order to get their native SMB
symlinks successfully followed from different mounts.
After commit 12b466eb52d9 ("cifs: Fix creating and resolving absolute NT-style symlinks"),
the client would then convert absolute paths from "/??/C:/" to "/mnt/c/"
by default. The absolute paths would vary depending on the value of
symlinkroot= mount option.
Fix this by restoring old behavior of not trying to convert absolute
paths by default. Only do this if symlinkroot= was _explicitly_ set.
Before patch:
$ mount.cifs //w22-fs0/test2 /mnt/1 -o vers=3.1.1,username=xxx,password=yyy
$ ls -l /mnt/1/symlink2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 Jun 20 14:22 /mnt/1/symlink2 -> /mnt/c/testfile
$ mkdir -p /??/C:; echo foo > //??/C:/testfile
$ cat /mnt/1/symlink2
cat: /mnt/1/symlink2: No such file or directory
After patch:
$ mount.cifs //w22-fs0/test2 /mnt/1 -o vers=3.1.1,username=xxx,password=yyy
$ ls -l /mnt/1/symlink2
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15 Jun 20 14:22 /mnt/1/symlink2 -> '/??/C:/testfile'
$ mkdir -p /??/C:; echo foo > //??/C:/testfile
$ cat /mnt/1/symlink2
foo
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Pierguido Lambri <plambri@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Fixes: 12b466eb52d9 ("cifs: Fix creating and resolving absolute NT-style symlinks")
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 17 +++++++----------
fs/smb/client/reparse.c | 22 +++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
index a634a34d4086a..59ccc2229ab30 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
@@ -1824,10 +1824,14 @@ static int smb3_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc,
cifs_errorf(fc, "symlinkroot mount options must be absolute path\n");
goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
}
- kfree(ctx->symlinkroot);
- ctx->symlinkroot = kstrdup(param->string, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!ctx->symlinkroot)
+ if (strnlen(param->string, PATH_MAX) == PATH_MAX) {
+ cifs_errorf(fc, "symlinkroot path too long (max path length: %u)\n",
+ PATH_MAX - 1);
goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
+ }
+ kfree(ctx->symlinkroot);
+ ctx->symlinkroot = param->string;
+ param->string = NULL;
break;
}
/* case Opt_ignore: - is ignored as expected ... */
@@ -1837,13 +1841,6 @@ static int smb3_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc,
goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
}
- /*
- * By default resolve all native absolute symlinks relative to "/mnt/".
- * Same default has drvfs driver running in WSL for resolving SMB shares.
- */
- if (!ctx->symlinkroot)
- ctx->symlinkroot = kstrdup("/mnt/", GFP_KERNEL);
-
return 0;
cifs_parse_mount_err:
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
index 1c40e42e4d897..5fa29a97ac154 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
struct reparse_symlink_data_buffer *buf = NULL;
struct cifs_open_info_data data = {};
struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb);
+ const char *symroot = cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot;
struct inode *new;
struct kvec iov;
__le16 *path = NULL;
@@ -82,7 +83,8 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
.symlink_target = symlink_target,
};
- if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/') {
+ if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) &&
+ symroot && symname[0] == '/') {
/*
* This is a request to create an absolute symlink on the server
* which does not support POSIX paths, and expects symlink in
@@ -92,7 +94,7 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
* ensure compatibility of this symlink stored in absolute form
* on the SMB server.
*/
- if (!strstarts(symname, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot)) {
+ if (!strstarts(symname, symroot)) {
/*
* If the absolute Linux symlink target path is not
* inside "symlinkroot" location then there is no way
@@ -101,12 +103,12 @@ static int create_native_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
cifs_dbg(VFS,
"absolute symlink '%s' cannot be converted to NT format "
"because it is outside of symlinkroot='%s'\n",
- symname, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
+ symname, symroot);
rc = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
- len = strlen(cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
- if (cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot[len-1] != '/')
+ len = strlen(symroot);
+ if (symroot[len - 1] != '/')
len++;
if (symname[len] >= 'a' && symname[len] <= 'z' &&
(symname[len+1] == '/' || symname[len+1] == '\0')) {
@@ -782,6 +784,7 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
const char *full_path,
struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb)
{
+ const char *symroot = cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot;
char sep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb);
char *linux_target = NULL;
char *smb_target = NULL;
@@ -815,7 +818,8 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
goto out;
}
- if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && !relative) {
+ if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) &&
+ symroot && !relative) {
/*
* This is an absolute symlink from the server which does not
* support POSIX paths, so the symlink is in NT-style path.
@@ -907,15 +911,15 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
}
abs_path_len = strlen(abs_path)+1;
- symlinkroot_len = strlen(cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
- if (cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot[symlinkroot_len-1] == '/')
+ symlinkroot_len = strlen(symroot);
+ if (symroot[symlinkroot_len - 1] == '/')
symlinkroot_len--;
linux_target = kmalloc(symlinkroot_len + 1 + abs_path_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!linux_target) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
- memcpy(linux_target, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot, symlinkroot_len);
+ memcpy(linux_target, symroot, symlinkroot_len);
linux_target[symlinkroot_len] = '/';
memcpy(linux_target + symlinkroot_len + 1, abs_path, abs_path_len);
} else if (smb_target[0] == sep && relative) {
--
2.39.5
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