From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@gmail.com>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smb: client: fix OOB write when compounding SMB2_IOCTL with encryption
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:04:16 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14e62e2c2cf3e910a5d86fdd465d9e4f@manguebit.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261030213827.2216453-1-andrey.misyrov@gmail.com>
Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@gmail.com> writes:
> On an encrypted ("seal") mount, SMB2_ioctl_init() keeps the IOCTL input
> in a separate iov (iov[1]); iov[0] is a 448-byte buffer from
> cifs_small_buf_get(). When such an IOCTL is not the last request of a
> compound, smb2_set_next_command() pads it for alignment by copying the
> whole request into iov[0]. A large enough input overflows that 448-byte
> buffer and corrupts the slab; the copy also sets rq_nvec to 1, so the
> input buffer is leaked too.
>
> An unprivileged user can trigger it by creating a symlink with a long
> target on such a mount: the native symlink is sent as
> FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT + QUERY_INFO + CLOSE in one compound, so the
> IOCTL is not the last request.
>
> With slub_debug red zones on the cifs_small_rq cache, the overflow is
> caught on the next allocation from that cache in the same compound (the
> 0x61 bytes are the 'a' characters of the symlink target):
>
> BUG cifs_small_rq (Not tainted): Object corrupt
> [Left Redzone overwritten] 0xffff8a59c7790500-0xffff8a59c779053f First byte 0x61 instead of 0xbb
> Call Trace:
> check_object+0x1a8/0x350
> alloc_debug_processing+0xab/0x110
> ___slab_alloc+0x7e/0x2f0
> kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x28d/0x4b0
> mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x30
> cifs_small_buf_get+0x1a/0x30 [cifs]
> SMB2_close_init+0x8a/0x100 [cifs]
> smb2_compound_op+0x2571/0x2b50 [cifs]
> smb2_create_reparse_inode+0x27e/0x490 [cifs]
> mknod_nfs+0x1ce/0x2e0 [cifs]
> create_reparse_symlink+0x119/0x180 [cifs]
> cifs_symlink+0x19f/0x8e0 [cifs]
> vfs_symlink+0xa3/0x1b0
> __x64_sys_symlink+0x41/0x70
>
> Pad the input to a multiple of 8 bytes when encryption is required. The
> request is then already aligned and smb2_set_next_command() no longer
> copies it; InputCount still carries the real length.
> ...
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-07 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-30 21:38 Andrey Misiurov
2026-11-01 2:02 ` Namjae Jeon
2026-11-07 18:04 ` Paulo Alcantara [this message]
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