From: "Cen Zhang (Microsoft)" <cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com>,
Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>,
Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>,
Hyunchul Lee <hyc.lee@gmail.com>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com,
Cen Zhang <cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ksmbd: fix parent dentry lifetime in directory enumeration
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:12:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261022041216.8988-1-cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
ksmbd_populate_dot_dotdot_entries() builds the ".." entry from
the open directory's d_parent and passes that pointer to
ksmbd_vfs_fill_dentry_attrs() without taking a reference. That pointer
is only valid while the directory stays under this parent. If a
concurrent rename moves the directory elsewhere, the old parent loses
its last reference; a following rmdir then turns it into a negative
dentry with d_inode cleared, and after the RCU grace period the dentry
itself is freed. The worker still holds the raw pointer and
dereferences d_inode through vfs_getattr() and vfs_getxattr().
A remote SMB client, authenticated or guest, triggers this by listing
a directory while that directory is moved under a new parent and the
old parent is deleted. It can be done by the client itself with write
access or by other concurrent writers, triggering null-ptr-deref and
slab-use-after-free on a KASAN build.
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range
[0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work
RIP: 0010:xattr_permission+0x9d/0x160
Call Trace:
vfs_getxattr+0x9c/0x1b0
ksmbd_vfs_getxattr+0x82/0x100
ksmbd_vfs_get_dos_attrib_xattr+0x7f/0x130
ksmbd_vfs_fill_dentry_attrs+0x435/0x650
ksmbd_populate_dot_dotdot_entries+0x25e/0x630
smb2_query_dir+0xcf9/0x1a20
handle_ksmbd_work+0x5f1/0x1c80
process_one_work+0x90b/0x19d0
Fix by using the dentry reference counting APIs: take the parent with
dget_parent(), take a matching dget() on ".", and dput() the dentry
once ksmbd_vfs_fill_dentry_attrs() has returned or the pattern does
not match.
Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: AutonomousCodeSecurity@microsoft.com
Signed-off-by: Cen Zhang (Microsoft) <cenzhang@linux.microsoft.com>
---
fs/smb/server/smb_common.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c b/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
index ec6ee56293ce..8e44b15a4177 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c
@@ -478,16 +478,17 @@ int ksmbd_populate_dot_dotdot_entries(struct ksmbd_work *work, int info_level,
if (i == 0) {
d_info->name = ".";
d_info->name_len = 1;
- dentry = dir->filp->f_path.dentry;
+ dentry = dget(dir->filp->f_path.dentry);
} else {
d_info->name = "..";
d_info->name_len = 2;
- dentry = dir->filp->f_path.dentry->d_parent;
+ dentry = dget_parent(dir->filp->f_path.dentry);
}
if (!match_pattern(d_info->name, d_info->name_len,
search_pattern)) {
dir->dot_dotdot[i] = 1;
+ dput(dentry);
continue;
}
@@ -496,6 +497,7 @@ int ksmbd_populate_dot_dotdot_entries(struct ksmbd_work *work, int info_level,
idmap,
dentry,
&ksmbd_kstat);
+ dput(dentry);
if (rc)
break;
--
2.55.0
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