FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ksmbd: fix invalid pointer dereference when get_inode_acl()" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-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-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 19d180c7baab7126af5848ed87d5f7b5add0cef2
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110319-lumping-divided-daed@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 19d180c7baab7126af5848ed87d5f7b5add0cef2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henry Hu <huhai@kylinos.cn>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2026 11:38:54 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ksmbd: fix invalid pointer dereference when get_inode_acl()
 fails

When get_inode_acl() fails, it returns an ERR_PTR(), but
ksmbd_acls_fattr() stored that pointer in smb_fattr without
checking for errors. Later callers then passed the error pointer
to security descriptor helpers or posix_acl_release(), resulting
in an invalid pointer dereference.

This was reproduced on an XFS-backed share when xfs_get_acl()
returned ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). Querying the SMB ACL from a CIFS client
triggered the crash:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8
  RIP: smb_acl_sec_desc_scratch_len+0x58/0x90 [ksmbd]
  Call Trace:
   smb2_query_info+0x40d/0x17c0 [ksmbd]
   handle_ksmbd_work+0x1ca/0x770 [ksmbd]

Fix this by checking the return values from get_inode_acl() in
ksmbd_acls_fattr(). Treat -EOPNOTSUPP as indicating that no ACL is
available, and propagate all other errors to the callers. Update
smb2_open() and smb2_get_info_sec() to handle these errors.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol
Reviewed-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Henry Hu <huhai@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
index c792ed5ebbd3..05a3388a3453 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -3647,10 +3647,11 @@ static int smb2_create_sd_buffer(struct ksmbd_work *work,
 			    le32_to_cpu(sd_buf->ccontext.DataLength), true, false);
 }
 
-static void ksmbd_acls_fattr(struct smb_fattr *fattr,
-			     const struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
-			     struct inode *inode)
+static int ksmbd_acls_fattr(struct smb_fattr *fattr,
+			    const struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
+			    struct inode *inode)
 {
+	struct posix_acl *acl;
 	vfsuid_t vfsuid = i_uid_into_vfsuid(idmap, inode);
 	vfsgid_t vfsgid = i_gid_into_vfsgid(idmap, inode);
 
@@ -3661,10 +3662,28 @@ static void ksmbd_acls_fattr(struct smb_fattr *fattr,
 	fattr->cf_dacls = NULL;
 
 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL)) {
-		fattr->cf_acls = get_inode_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
-		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-			fattr->cf_dacls = get_inode_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
+		acl = get_inode_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
+		if (IS_ERR(acl)) {
+			if (acl != ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP))
+				return PTR_ERR(acl);
+			acl = NULL;
+		}
+		fattr->cf_acls = acl;
+
+		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+			acl = get_inode_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
+			if (IS_ERR(acl)) {
+				if (acl != ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP)) {
+					posix_acl_release(fattr->cf_acls);
+					return PTR_ERR(acl);
+				}
+				acl = NULL;
+			}
+			fattr->cf_dacls = acl;
+		}
 	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 enum {
@@ -4791,7 +4810,10 @@ int smb2_open(struct ksmbd_work *work)
 					int pntsd_size;
 					size_t scratch_len;
 
-					ksmbd_acls_fattr(&fattr, idmap, inode);
+					rc = ksmbd_acls_fattr(&fattr, idmap, inode);
+					if (rc)
+						goto err_out;
+
 					scratch_len = smb_acl_sec_desc_scratch_len(&fattr,
 							NULL, 0,
 							OWNER_SECINFO | GROUP_SECINFO |
@@ -7652,7 +7674,11 @@ static int smb2_get_info_sec(struct ksmbd_work *work,
 
 	idmap = file_mnt_idmap(fp->filp);
 	inode = file_inode(fp->filp);
-	ksmbd_acls_fattr(&fattr, idmap, inode);
+	rc = ksmbd_acls_fattr(&fattr, idmap, inode);
+	if (rc) {
+		ksmbd_fd_put(work, fp);
+		return rc;
+	}
 
 	if (test_share_config_flag(work->tcon->share_conf,
 				   KSMBD_SHARE_FLAG_ACL_XATTR))