[PATCH 1/2] smb: client: fix off-by-8 bounds check in check_wsl_eas()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-06T13:49:41Z

The bounds check uses (u8 *)ea + nlen + 1 + vlen as the end of the EA
name and value, but ea_data sits at offset sizeof(struct
smb2_file_full_ea_info) = 8 from ea, not at offset 0. The strncmp()
later reads ea->ea_data[0..nlen-1] and the value bytes follow at
ea_data[nlen+1..nlen+vlen], so the actual end is ea->ea_data + nlen + 1
+ vlen. Isn't pointer math fun?

The earlier check (u8 *)ea > end - sizeof(*ea) only guarantees the
8-byte header is in bounds, but since the last EA is placed within 8
bytes of the end of the response, the name and value bytes are read past
the end of iov.

Fix this mess all up by using ea->ea_data as the base for the bounds
check.

An "untrusted" server can use this to leak up to 8 bytes of kernel heap
into the EA name comparison and influence which WSL xattr the data is
interpreted as.

Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c
index 364bdcff9c9d..fe1c9d776580 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ static int check_wsl_eas(struct kvec *rsp_iov)
nlen = ea->ea_name_length;
vlen = le16_to_cpu(ea->ea_value_length);
if (nlen != SMB2_WSL_XATTR_NAME_LEN ||
- (u8 *)ea + nlen + 1 + vlen > end)
+ (u8 *)ea->ea_data + nlen + 1 + vlen > end)
return -EINVAL;

switch (vlen) {
--
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