FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-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 <[email protected]>.

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-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x da6e25842431982d5a53cf00d925b98c690f4467
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026091630-viscosity-landless-276f@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From da6e25842431982d5a53cf00d925b98c690f4467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 2026 14:40:39 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] smb: client: avoid using uninitialized SIDs in
cifs_posix_to_fattr()

cifs_posix_to_fattr() ignores the return value of posix_info_parse(). When a malformed POSIX directory entry is encountered (e.g. invalid SID lengths from an untrusted server), posix_info_parse() returns -1 without populating the 'parsed' struct. The uninitialized stack memory in parsed.owner and parsed.group is then passed to sid_to_id(), which processes the garbage bytes and passes them to request_key() to construct a SID string, potentially leaking kernel stack contents to the userspace idmap daemon.

Fix this by checking the return value and skipping the SID-to-id mapping when parsing fails. The remaining fattr fields (timestamps, mode, etc.) are populated directly from the 'info' pointer so they are unaffected.

index 1ea84f4ada39..9530e5b01564 100644
@@ -244,8 +244,9 @@ cifs_posix_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, struct smb2_posix_info *info,
 {
 	unsigned int sbflags = cifs_sb_flags(cifs_sb);
 	struct smb2_posix_info_parsed parsed;
+	int rc;
 
-	posix_info_parse(info, NULL, &parsed);
+	rc = posix_info_parse(info, NULL, &parsed);
 
 	memset(fattr, 0, sizeof(*fattr));
 	fattr->cf_uniqueid = le64_to_cpu(info->Inode);

@@ -284,10 +285,15 @@ cifs_posix_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, struct smb2_posix_info *info,
 
 	fattr->cf_uid = cifs_sb->ctx->linux_uid;
 	fattr->cf_gid = cifs_sb->ctx->linux_gid;
-	if (!(sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_UID))
-		sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.owner, fattr, SIDOWNER);
-	if (!(sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_GID))
-		sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.group, fattr, SIDGROUP);
+	if (rc < 0) {
+		cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: failed to parse SIDs: %d\n",
+			 __func__, rc);
+	} else {
+		if (!(sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_UID))
+			sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.owner, fattr, SIDOWNER);
+		if (!(sbflags & CIFS_MOUNT_OVERR_GID))
+			sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.group, fattr, SIDGROUP);
+	}
 }
 
 static void __dir_info_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, const void *info)

From: Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit da6e25842431982d5a53cf00d925b98c690f4467 ]

cifs_posix_to_fattr() ignores the return value of posix_info_parse(). When a malformed POSIX directory entry is encountered (e.g. invalid SID lengths from an untrusted server), posix_info_parse() returns -1 without populating the 'parsed' struct. The uninitialized stack memory in parsed.owner and parsed.group is then passed to sid_to_id(), which processes the garbage bytes and passes them to request_key() to construct a SID string, potentially leaking kernel stack contents to the userspace idmap daemon.

Fix this by checking the return value and skipping the SID-to-id mapping when parsing fails. The remaining fattr fields (timestamps, mode, etc.) are populated directly from the 'info' pointer so they are unaffected.

---
 fs/cifs/readdir.c | 14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

index 7c47a03afbcc3..d7edf8ae18967 100644
@@ -233,8 +233,9 @@ cifs_posix_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, struct smb2_posix_info *info,
 		    struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb)
 {
 	struct smb2_posix_info_parsed parsed;
+	int rc;
 
-	posix_info_parse(info, NULL, &parsed);
+	rc = posix_info_parse(info, NULL, &parsed);
 
 	memset(fattr, 0, sizeof(*fattr));
 	fattr->cf_uniqueid = le64_to_cpu(info->Inode);

@@ -276,8 +277,15 @@ cifs_posix_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, struct smb2_posix_info *info,
 	if (reparse_file_needs_reval(fattr))
 		fattr->cf_flags |= CIFS_FATTR_NEED_REVAL;
 
-	sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.owner, fattr, SIDOWNER);
-	sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.group, fattr, SIDGROUP);
+	fattr->cf_uid = cifs_sb->ctx->linux_uid;
+	fattr->cf_gid = cifs_sb->ctx->linux_gid;
+	if (rc < 0) {
+		cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: failed to parse SIDs: %d\n",
+			 __func__, rc);
+	} else {
+		sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.owner, fattr, SIDOWNER);
+		sid_to_id(cifs_sb, &parsed.group, fattr, SIDGROUP);
+	}
 }
 
 static void __dir_info_to_fattr(struct cifs_fattr *fattr, const void *info)

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