[PATCH 6.6 082/166] ksmbd: validate EaNameLength in smb2_get_ea()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-24T13:38:49Z

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

commit 66751841212c2cc196577453c37f7774ff363f02 upstream.

smb2_get_ea() reads ea_req->EaNameLength from the client request and
passes it directly to strncmp() as the comparison length without
verifying that the length of the name really is the size of the input
buffer received.

Fix this up by properly checking the size of the name based on the value
received and the overall size of the request, to prevent a later
strncmp() call to use the length as a "trusted" size of the buffer.
Without this check, uninitialized heap values might be slowly leaked to
the client.

Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: gregkh_clanker_t1000
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -4702,6 +4702,11 @@ static int smb2_get_ea(struct ksmbd_work

ea_req = (struct smb2_ea_info_req *)((char *)req +
le16_to_cpu(req->InputBufferOffset));
+
+ if (le32_to_cpu(req->InputBufferLength) <
+ offsetof(struct smb2_ea_info_req, name) +
+ ea_req->EaNameLength)
+ return -EINVAL;
} else {
/* need to send all EAs, if no specific EA is requested*/
if (le32_to_cpu(req->Flags) & SL_RETURN_SINGLE_ENTRY)