FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: client: require net admin for CIFS SWN netlink" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.6.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x d1ebfce2c1d161186a82e77590bf7da2ea1bce91
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026052829-prewashed-duct-fb51@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.6.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d1ebfce2c1d161186a82e77590bf7da2ea1bce91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 20:11:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] smb: client: require net admin for CIFS SWN netlink

CIFS_GENL_CMD_SWN_NOTIFY is the userspace witness-notify command.  The
intended sender is the cifs.witness helper, but the generic-netlink
operation currently has no capability flag, so any local process can send
RESOURCE_CHANGE or CLIENT_MOVE notifications to the in-kernel witness
handler.

The same family exposes CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN without multicast-group
capability flags.  Register messages sent to that group include the witness
registration id and, for NTLM-authenticated mounts, the username, domain,
and password attributes copied from the CIFS session.  An unprivileged
local process should not be able to join that group and receive those
messages.

Require CAP_NET_ADMIN for incoming SWN_NOTIFY commands with
GENL_ADMIN_PERM, and require CAP_NET_ADMIN over the network namespace for
joining the SWN multicast group with GENL_MCAST_CAP_NET_ADMIN.  The
cifs.witness service runs with the privileges needed for both operations.

Fixes: fed979a7e082 ("cifs: Set witness notification handler for messages from userspace daemon")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael Bommarito <michael.bommarito@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/netlink.c b/fs/smb/client/netlink.c
index 147d9409252c..0dd10913c37a 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/netlink.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/netlink.c
@@ -33,13 +33,17 @@ static const struct nla_policy cifs_genl_policy[CIFS_GENL_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
 static const struct genl_ops cifs_genl_ops[] = {
 	{
 		.cmd = CIFS_GENL_CMD_SWN_NOTIFY,
+		.flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
 		.validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
 		.doit = cifs_swn_notify,
 	},
 };
 
 static const struct genl_multicast_group cifs_genl_mcgrps[] = {
-	[CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN] = { .name = CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN_NAME },
+	[CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN] = {
+		.name = CIFS_GENL_MCGRP_SWN_NAME,
+		.flags = GENL_MCAST_CAP_NET_ADMIN,
+	},
 };
 
 struct genl_family cifs_genl_family = {