FAILED: patch "[PATCH] smb: client: hold server info until cifsd exits" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

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2026-11-04 14:34 UTC #0 lore raw

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 <[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-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 482c117c6dbeee382790168af10959810450ab09
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<[email protected]>' --in-reply-to '2026110420-crunching-excess-eb90@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 482c117c6dbeee382790168af10959810450ab09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eduard Zateev <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:45:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] smb: client: hold server info until cifsd exits

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 [email protected]

Closes https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c3ed2a0de3270efc921

Reported-by [email protected]

Closes https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=c2ec61adfbcb24e5ec20

Assisted-by LLM OpenAI Codex

Signed-off-by Eduard Zateev <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Tested-by Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>

fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h +2 -0

index 73b49dcb5215..d3ca688b6aba 100644
@@ -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>

@@ -681,6 +682,7 @@ 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 */
 	int rfc1001_sessinit; /* whether to estasblish netbios session */
 	bool with_rfc1001; /* if netbios session is used */
 	/* 15 character server name + 0x20 16th byte indicating type = srv */

fs/smb/client/connect.c +21 ~~-12~~

index c3614c077746..e68fffb2ab2e 100644
@@ -1083,6 +1083,19 @@ 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)
 {

@@ -1168,14 +1181,11 @@ clean_demultiplex_info(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
 		 */
 	}
 
-	put_net(cifs_net_ns(server));
-	kfree(server->leaf_fullpath);
-	kfree(server->hostname);
-	kfree_sensitive(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

@@ -1751,7 +1761,7 @@ 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);

@@ -1759,15 +1769,11 @@ 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 *

@@ -1789,6 +1795,7 @@ 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) {

@@ -1927,6 +1934,8 @@ smbd_connected:
 		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);

Sasha Levin

maintainer

2026-11-05 03:01 UTC #1 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 smb: client: hold server info until cifsd exits

From: Eduard Zateev <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 482c117c6dbeee382790168af10959810450ab09 ]

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 [email protected]

Closes https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=5c3ed2a0de3270efc921

Reported-by [email protected]

Closes https://syzbot.org/bug?extid=c2ec61adfbcb24e5ec20

Assisted-by LLM OpenAI Codex

Signed-off-by Eduard Zateev <[email protected]>

Cc [email protected]

Tested-by Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Paulo Alcantara <[email protected]>

[ sashal: Adjusted patch context for missing NetBIOS fields and existing kfree() cleanup instead of kfree_sensitive(). ]

Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>

---
 fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h |  2 ++
 fs/smb/client/connect.c  | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h +2 -0

index f5ca2cd653e95..8ffc8b2ab6db4 100644
@@ -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;

fs/smb/client/connect.c +21 ~~-12~~

index 81961a54c9f1c..225bcd149a32f 100644
@@ -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);

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