From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.15.y] smb: server: fix max_connections off-by-one in tcp accept path
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:08:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424140809.2152073-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026042408-reshuffle-engraved-f843@gregkh>
From: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit ce23158bfe584bd90d1918f279fdf9de57802012 ]
The global max_connections check in ksmbd's TCP accept path counts
the newly accepted connection with atomic_inc_return(), but then
rejects the connection when the result is greater than or equal to
server_conf.max_connections.
That makes the effective limit one smaller than configured. For
example:
- max_connections=1 rejects the first connection
- max_connections=2 allows only one connection
The per-IP limit in the same function uses <= correctly because it
counts only pre-existing connections. The global limit instead checks
the post-increment total, so it should reject only when that total
exceeds the configured maximum.
Fix this by changing the comparison from >= to >, so exactly
max_connections simultaneous connections are allowed and the next one
is rejected. This matches the documented meaning of max_connections
in fs/smb/server/ksmbd_netlink.h as the "Number of maximum simultaneous
connections".
Fixes: 0d0d4680db22 ("ksmbd: add max connections parameter")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: DaeMyung Kang <charsyam@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c b/fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c
index 7ef201b7ddb57..e18bb05972aa6 100644
--- a/fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c
+++ b/fs/ksmbd/transport_tcp.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ static int ksmbd_kthread_fn(void *p)
}
if (server_conf.max_connections &&
- atomic_inc_return(&active_num_conn) >= server_conf.max_connections) {
+ atomic_inc_return(&active_num_conn) > server_conf.max_connections) {
pr_info_ratelimited("Limit the maximum number of connections(%u)\n",
atomic_read(&active_num_conn));
atomic_dec(&active_num_conn);
--
2.53.0
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2026-04-24 9:42 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: server: fix max_connections off-by-one in tcp accept" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree gregkh
2026-04-24 14:08 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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