* [PATCH] cifs: fix UAF read of server->hostname in cifs_get_spnego_key()
@ 2026-10-27 15:04 Henry Martin
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From: Henry Martin @ 2026-10-27 15:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Paulo Alcantara, Namjae Jeon, Ronnie Sahlberg, Shyam Prasad N,
Tom Talpey, Bharath SM
Cc: linux-cifs, samba-technical, linux-kernel, Henry Martin, stable
cifs_get_spnego_key() reads server->hostname without holding
server->srv_lock (fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c):
const char *hostname = server->hostname;
...
desc_len = ... + strlen(hostname) + ...
...
dp += sprintf(dp, "ver=0x%x;host=%s;", ..., hostname);
while the DFS failover path frees and replaces the hostname under
srv_lock (__reconnect_target_locked(), fs/smb/client/connect.c):
spin_lock(&server->srv_lock);
kfree(server->hostname);
server->hostname = hostname;
spin_unlock(&server->srv_lock);
The read side runs on the kerberos auth path without the lock, so the
strlen() and the sprintf() can race with the free.
Take a stable copy of the hostname under srv_lock at function entry,
before any use.
This issue was discovered by Tencent CodeBuddy Security.
Fixes: 93d5cb517db3 ("cifs: Add support for failover in cifs_reconnect()")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---
fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c | 9 +++++++++
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c b/fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c
index 44c4072756804..488ddf6df138d 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifs_spnego.c
@@ -105,7 +105,15 @@ cifs_get_spnego_key(struct cifs_ses *sesInfo,
char *description, *dp;
size_t desc_len;
struct key *spnego_key;
- const char *hostname = server->hostname;
+ char hostname[CIFS_NI_MAXHOST + 1];
+
+ /* hostname is replaced under srv_lock by the DFS failover path
+ * (kfree + new assignment); take a stable copy while holding the
+ * lock so strlen()/sprintf() below cannot race with the free.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&server->srv_lock);
+ strscpy(hostname, server->hostname, sizeof(hostname));
+ spin_unlock(&server->srv_lock);
/* length of fields (with semicolons): ver=0xyz ip4=ipaddress
host=hostname sec=mechanism uid=0xFF user=username */
--
2.43.7
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