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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Eduard Zateev <hackerowskiy@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+5c3ed2a0de3270efc921@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	syzbot+c2ec61adfbcb24e5ec20@syzkaller.appspotmail.com,
	Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>,
	Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.12.y] smb: client: hold server info until cifsd exits
Date: Wed,  4 Nov 2026 22:01:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261105030125.1213408-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110420-crunching-excess-eb90@gregkh>

From: Eduard Zateev <hackerowskiy@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 482c117c6dbeee382790168af10959810450ab09 ]

The last session reference can be dropped while the cifsd demultiplex
thread is still running clean_demultiplex_info(). That thread frees
TCP_Server_Info there, racing with cifs_put_tcp_session() as it releases
the server crypto state. syzbot reported a KASAN use-after-free in
cifs_crypto_secmech_release().

Keep an object reference for the cifsd thread. Defer final crypto,
session-key, network namespace, string, and structure cleanup until both
the last session reference and the thread reference are dropped. Drop the
thread reference after clean_demultiplex_info() has finished using the
server.

Build-tested with ARCH=arm64 and W=1 for
fs/smb/client/connect.o. The KASAN reproducer was not run on the patched
kernel.

Fixes: a5c3e1c725af ("Revert "cifs: No need to send SIGKILL to demux_thread during umount"")
Reported-by: syzbot+5c3ed2a0de3270efc921@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c3ed2a0de3270efc921
Reported-by: syzbot+c2ec61adfbcb24e5ec20@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=c2ec61adfbcb24e5ec20
Assisted-by: LLM OpenAI Codex
Signed-off-by: Eduard Zateev <hackerowskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
[ sashal: Adjusted patch context for missing NetBIOS fields and existing kfree() cleanup instead of kfree_sensitive(). ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h |  2 ++
 fs/smb/client/connect.c  | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
index f5ca2cd653e95..8ffc8b2ab6db4 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #include <linux/scatterlist.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/mempool.h>
+#include <linux/refcount.h>
 #include <linux/workqueue.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
 #include <linux/sched/mm.h>
@@ -647,6 +648,7 @@ struct TCP_Server_Info {
 	spinlock_t srv_lock;  /* protect anything here that is not protected */
 	__u64 conn_id; /* connection identifier (useful for debugging) */
 	int srv_count; /* reference counter */
+	refcount_t obj_refs; /* struct lifetime: srv_count users + cifsd */
 	/* 15 character server name + 0x20 16th byte indicating type = srv */
 	char server_RFC1001_name[RFC1001_NAME_LEN_WITH_NULL];
 	struct smb_version_operations	*ops;
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
index 81961a54c9f1c..225bcd149a32f 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -977,6 +977,19 @@ cifs_enable_signing(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, bool mnt_sign_required)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static void cifs_tcp_server_put(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
+{
+	if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&server->obj_refs))
+		return;
+
+	cifs_crypto_secmech_release(server);
+	kfree_sensitive(server->session_key.response);
+	put_net(cifs_net_ns(server));
+	kfree(server->leaf_fullpath);
+	kfree(server->hostname);
+	kfree_sensitive(server);
+}
+
 static noinline_for_stack void
 clean_demultiplex_info(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
 {
@@ -1062,14 +1075,11 @@ clean_demultiplex_info(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
 		 */
 	}
 
-	put_net(cifs_net_ns(server));
-	kfree(server->leaf_fullpath);
-	kfree(server->hostname);
-	kfree(server);
-
 	length = atomic_dec_return(&tcpSesAllocCount);
 	if (length > 0)
 		mempool_resize(cifs_req_poolp, length + cifs_min_rcv);
+
+	cifs_tcp_server_put(server);
 }
 
 static int
@@ -1678,7 +1688,7 @@ cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, int from_reconnect)
 	else
 		cancel_delayed_work_sync(&server->reconnect);
 
-	/* For secondary channels, we pick up ref-count on the primary server */
+	/* For secondary channels, drop the reference on the primary server */
 	if (SERVER_IS_CHAN(server))
 		cifs_put_tcp_session(server->primary_server, from_reconnect);
 
@@ -1686,15 +1696,11 @@ cifs_put_tcp_session(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, int from_reconnect)
 	server->tcpStatus = CifsExiting;
 	spin_unlock(&server->srv_lock);
 
-	cifs_crypto_secmech_release(server);
-
-	kfree_sensitive(server->session_key.response);
-	server->session_key.response = NULL;
-	server->session_key.len = 0;
-
 	task = xchg(&server->tsk, NULL);
 	if (task)
 		send_sig(SIGKILL, task, 1);
+
+	cifs_tcp_server_put(server);
 }
 
 struct TCP_Server_Info *
@@ -1716,6 +1722,7 @@ cifs_get_tcp_session(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx,
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_err;
 	}
+	refcount_set(&tcp_ses->obj_refs, 1);
 
 	tcp_ses->hostname = kstrdup(ctx->server_hostname, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!tcp_ses->hostname) {
@@ -1856,6 +1863,8 @@ cifs_get_tcp_session(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx,
 		module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 		goto out_err_crypto_release;
 	}
+	/* Keep the server alive until the demultiplex thread has exited */
+	refcount_inc(&tcp_ses->obj_refs);
 	/* thread created, put it on the list */
 	spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
 	list_add(&tcp_ses->tcp_ses_list, &cifs_tcp_ses_list);
-- 
2.53.0


      reply	other threads:[~2026-11-05  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 14:34 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: client: hold server info until cifsd exits" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-05  3:01 ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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