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From: Frank Sorenson <sorenson@redhat.com>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, pc@manguebit.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: client: fix potential use-after-free with TCP_Server_Info->hostname
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:52:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2dd4bc7-413e-4ebb-b94e-2c61e3fcee17@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKYAXd9UW34G21Xr6kUArCGsKUQZxz7ttkuCcdE9tVgyXNWTNA@mail.gmail.com>


On 9/17/26 8:47 PM, Namjae Jeon wrote:
>> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
>> index dea05aeb53a1..bb30cfa156aa 100644
>> --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
>> +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
>> @@ -173,9 +173,8 @@ cifs_chan_skip_or_disable(struct cifs_ses *ses,
>>          unsigned int chan_index;
>>
>>          if (SERVER_IS_CHAN(server)) {
>> -               cifs_dbg(VFS,
>> -                       "server %s does not support multichannel anymore. Skip secondary channel\n",
>> -                        ses->server->hostname);
>> +               cifs_server_dbg(VFS,
>> +                               "server does not support multichannel anymore. Skip secondary channel\n");
> Since SERVER_IS_CHAN(server) means that server is a secondary channel,
> Is it intentional that this now logs the secondary hostname instead of
> the primary hostname?

No, not intentional... I missed that server != ses->server at this
point, so the patch is wrong.

Frank

-- 
Frank Sorenson
sorenson@redhat.com
Principal Software Maintenance Engineer, filesystems
Red Hat


      reply	other threads:[~2026-09-18  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-18  0:33 [PATCH] smb: client: fix potential use-after-free with TCP_Server_Info->hostname Frank Sorenson
2026-09-18  1:44 ` Frank Sorenson
2026-09-18  1:47 ` Namjae Jeon
2026-09-18  1:52   ` Frank Sorenson [this message]

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