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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
	Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/5] smb: server: Free sensitive data in connection.c with kfree_sensitive()
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:46:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260811154620.2425851-5-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260811154620.2425851-1-thuth@redhat.com>

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

struct ksmbd_conn contains an embedded struct ntlmssp_auth with the
ciphertext[] and cryptkey[] arrays, so to avoid leaking this information
via the heap, it should be freed with kfree_sensitive().

While we're at it, also use kfree_sensitive() for freeing preauth_info
in ksmbd_conn_free() to avoid that the Preauth_HashValue[] could leak
via the heap here, too.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 fs/smb/server/connection.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/connection.c b/fs/smb/server/connection.c
index ef6f202f4024c..68b9e698b1cb6 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/connection.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/connection.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static void __ksmbd_conn_release_work(struct work_struct *work)
 
 	ida_destroy(&conn->async_ida);
 	conn->transport->ops->free_transport(conn->transport);
-	kfree(conn);
+	kfree_sensitive(conn);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ void ksmbd_conn_free(struct ksmbd_conn *conn)
 	 */
 	xa_destroy(&conn->sessions);
 	kvfree(conn->request_buf);
-	kfree(conn->preauth_info);
+	kfree_sensitive(conn->preauth_info);
 	kfree(conn->mechToken);
 	ksmbd_conn_put(conn);
 }
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ static void stop_sessions(void)
 		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&target->refcnt)) {
 			ida_destroy(&target->async_ida);
 			t->ops->free_transport(t);
-			kfree(target);
+			kfree_sensitive(target);
 		}
 		goto again;
 	}
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-11 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-11 15:46 [PATCH v2 0/5] smb: server: Clear sensitive data before freeing it Thomas Huth
2026-08-11 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] smb: server: Clear sensitive stack and heap data in auth.c Thomas Huth
2026-08-11 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] smb: server: Make sure that passkey is not leaked on the heap in user_config.c Thomas Huth
2026-08-11 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] smb: server: Free session data in user_session.c with kfree_sensitive() Thomas Huth
2026-08-11 15:46 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2026-08-11 15:46 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] smb: server: Clear Preauth_HashValue in smb2pdu.c " Thomas Huth
2026-08-12 12:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] smb: server: Clear sensitive data before freeing it Namjae Jeon

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