From: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com>
To: smfrench@gmail.com, linkinjeon@kernel.org, tom@talpey.com,
senozhatsky@chromium.org, obnred@gmail.com
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] smb/server: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy()
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:40:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260813104042.170080-1-chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com> (raw)
From: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
Reproducer (Link[1]):
1. Build kernel with CONFIG_KASAN=y
2. server: systemctl start ksmbd
3. client: mount -t cifs //localhost/export /mnt
4. client: umount /mnt
5. server: modprobe -r ksmbd
The error message is as follows:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in proc_remove+0x3e/0x80
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810654e098 by task modprobe/785
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack+0x19/0x30
dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x60
print_address_description+0x7b/0x200
print_report+0x5b/0x70
kasan_report+0xed/0x130
__asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x20
proc_remove+0x3e/0x80
ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy+0x2b/0x320 [ksmbd]
cleanup_module+0x33/0xe00 [ksmbd]
__se_sys_delete_module+0x276/0x400
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x5f/0x70
x64_sys_call+0x2675/0x3030
do_syscall_64+0xf0/0x3b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7f5b56d2b02b
...
</TASK>
Allocated by task 159:
kasan_save_track+0x2f/0x70
kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x50
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x52/0x70
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x168/0x3e0
__proc_create+0x20b/0x710
proc_create_single_data+0x78/0x150
ksmbd_proc_create+0x24/0x30 [ksmbd]
ksmbd_conn_transport_init+0x4f/0x80 [ksmbd]
server_ctrl_handle_work+0x64/0x2c0 [ksmbd]
process_scheduled_works+0x788/0xec0
worker_thread+0x894/0xc10
kthread+0x2e5/0x3c0
ret_from_fork+0x168/0x4f0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Freed by task 785:
kasan_save_track+0x2f/0x70
kasan_save_free_info+0x4a/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x47/0x70
kmem_cache_free+0x122/0x410
pde_put+0xfd/0x160
remove_proc_subtree+0x365/0x540
proc_remove+0x6a/0x80
ksmbd_proc_cleanup+0x1f/0x60 [ksmbd]
cleanup_module+0x18/0xe00 [ksmbd]
__se_sys_delete_module+0x276/0x400
__x64_sys_delete_module+0x5f/0x70
x64_sys_call+0x2675/0x3030
do_syscall_64+0xf0/0x3b0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
==================================================================
Reported-by: Kyenghwan Hwang <obnred@gmail.com>
Link[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/8ea028f5-90f4-4d21-b1ac-a343f0f04d88@chenxiaosong.com/
Signed-off-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
---
fs/smb/server/server.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/server.c b/fs/smb/server/server.c
index 0ccd123ba418..d619d1f22601 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/server.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/server.c
@@ -596,11 +596,16 @@ static int ksmbd_server_shutdown(void)
{
WRITE_ONCE(server_conf.state, SERVER_STATE_SHUTTING_DOWN);
- ksmbd_proc_cleanup();
class_unregister(&ksmbd_control_class);
ksmbd_workqueue_destroy();
ksmbd_ipc_release();
ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy();
+ /*
+ * ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy() calls delete_proc_clients() and destroys
+ * sessions. ksmbd_session_destroy() removes each session's proc entry.
+ * Keep the procfs tree alive until these entries have been removed.
+ */
+ ksmbd_proc_cleanup();
ksmbd_crypto_destroy();
ksmbd_free_global_file_table();
destroy_lease_table(NULL);
--
2.54.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-13 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-13 10:40 ChenXiaoSong [this message]
2026-08-13 12:38 ` [PATCH] smb/server: fix use-after-free in ksmbd_conn_transport_destroy() ChenXiaoSong
2026-08-13 13:32 ` Blue bird
2026-08-13 13:37 ` Blue bird
2026-08-13 13:46 ` ChenXiaoSong
2026-08-14 5:07 ` Namjae Jeon
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