[PATCH 6.18 023/212] smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T14:02:01Z

From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>

commit 12b4c5d98cd7ca46d5035a57bcd995df614c14e1 upstream.

Customer reported that some of their krb5 mounts were failing against
a single server as the client was trying to mount the shares with
wrong credentials. It turned out the client was reusing SMB session
from first mount to try mounting the other shares, even though a
different username= option had been specified to the other mounts.

By using username mount option along with sec=krb5 to search for
principals from keytab is supported by cifs.upcall(8) since
cifs-utils-4.8. So fix this by matching username mount option in
match_session() even with Kerberos.

For example, the second mount below should fail with -ENOKEY as there
is no 'foobar' principal in keytab (/etc/krb5.keytab). The client
ends up reusing SMB session from first mount to perform the second
one, which is wrong.

```
$ ktutil
ktutil: add_entry -password -p testuser -k 1 -e aes256-cts
Password for testuser@ZELDA.TEST:
ktutil: write_kt /etc/krb5.keytab
ktutil: quit
$ klist -ke
Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab
KVNO Principal
---- ----------------------------------------------------------------
1 testuser@ZELDA.TEST (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96)
$ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/1 -o sec=krb5,username=testuser
$ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/2 -o sec=krb5,username=foobar
$ mount -t cifs | grep -Po 'username=\K\w+'
testuser
testuser
```

Reported-by: Oscar Santos <ossantos@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/smb/client/connect.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -1954,6 +1954,10 @@ static int match_session(struct cifs_ses
case Kerberos:
if (!uid_eq(ctx->cred_uid, ses->cred_uid))
return 0;
+ if (strncmp(ses->user_name ?: "",
+ ctx->username ?: "",
+ CIFS_MAX_USERNAME_LEN))
+ return 0;
break;
case NTLMv2: