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From: Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>
To: linkinjeon@kernel.org, stfrench@microsoft.com
Cc: icb@fastmail.org, senozhatsky@chromium.org, tom@talpey.com,
	chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com, ematsumiya@suse.de,
	lsahlber@redhat.com, hyc.lee@gmail.com,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Michail Andreas Michalopoulos <mike.michalo@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/6] ksmbd: verify session setup requests before signing with their key
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 02:41:38 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261109194144.22814-1-mike.michalo@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKYAXd-Jo-ObBDs-AdGfaM+QmDsot3gj1g0oJiyDKczoUDg2TA@mail.gmail.com>

ksmbd signs some SESSION_SETUP and error responses with a session's key
without having verified the request, which lets a peer that does not hold
the key obtain signatures made with it. This series fixes those cases,
makes ksmbd sign with the SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm it negotiated, and
fixes three related problems found in review of v2.

1/6 verifies multichannel binding requests with the session signing key
    (MS-SMB2 3.3.5.2.4), as reported by Ian Bridges.
2/6 keeps the negotiated SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm instead of always
    using AES-CMAC, and signs each key with its own algorithm.
3/6 verifies signed reauthentication requests and uses the channel key
    for session setup on a bound channel. A reauthentication with a
    forged signature used to get a response signed with the session key.
4/6 checks the MessageId and signature of a request before signing
    STATUS_NETWORK_SESSION_EXPIRED, also reported by Ian Bridges.
5/6 makes the signing decision in a compound follow each command's own
    header instead of the first command's.
6/6 consumes the MessageId of a request on an unknown, invalid or
    expired session, which the error path skipped.

Changes since v2, following Sashiko's review of v2:
- 1/6: correct a missing negation on the multichannel flag, so an SMB 3.x
  binding request received while multichannel is disabled is verified
  and rejected in the non-multichannel branch instead of falling through
  to the reauthentication path.
- 3/6: also refuse an unsigned, unencrypted reauthentication when the
  session requires signing or encryption. Negotiating encryption clears
  sess->sign even when the connection required signing, so the v2 check
  let such a reauthentication through. Merely having negotiated
  encryption is not treated as a requirement, since clients routinely
  negotiate it and then send unsigned, unencrypted requests.
- 5/6 is new. With signing not required, a signed later command was
  processed without its signature being checked, a correctly signed one
  got an unsigned response, and an unsigned one after a signed first
  command was refused. It also decides whether to sign each response
  before moving on to the next command of the compound.
- 6/6 is new. Only a signed request on an expired session had its
  MessageId checked (by 4/6); any other failed-session request left it
  unconsumed, pinning the command sequence window and letting a replayed
  MessageId be answered again. 4/6's own check moves to the common path,
  so the MessageId is consumed exactly once.

Testing, on a KASAN/lockdep UML kernel with ksmbd-tools:
- forged and replayed binding, reauthentication and expired-session
  requests, also inside compounds, get unsigned refusals with AES-CMAC
  and HMAC-SHA256;
- new targeted tests for 3/6, 5/6 and 6/6, each failing on the kernel
  without the fix and passing with it (5/6: each response of a compound
  mixing signed and unsigned commands is signed exactly when its request
  is). The 3/6 test uses an SMB 3.1.1 client with AES-128-GCM
  encryption: an unsigned reauthentication is allowed when the session
  requires neither signing nor encryption, refused when the client
  required signing, and an encrypted one is allowed;
- randomized requests against these paths, and 8- and 16-thread
  bind/reauth/logoff stress (about 130,000 operations), found no signed
  response to an unverified request and no KASAN or lockdep report;
- the Linux cifs client works with SMB 2.1 to 3.1.1, signed and
  encrypted, and recovers after its session expires;
- smbtorture's session, signing, I/O, compound, lock, oplock, lease,
  notify and ioctl suites give the same results as without the series.
  With multichannel disabled, the session tests also pass and fail as
  without the series; six binding tests that fail either way (the d and
  s variants of bind_negative_smb2to3, smb3to3 and smb3encGtoC) now get
  STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED or STATUS_REQUEST_NOT_ACCEPTED instead of
  STATUS_USER_SESSION_DELETED (they expect STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER),
  since 1/6 now rejects such a binding request in the binding branch;
Ian Bridges also tested an earlier revision with his own probes and
smbtorture. Not tested: Windows clients, and Kerberos expiry with a real
KDC (it was emulated with a test-only change).

An AI assistant was used to draft the patches and as an independent
reviewer.

Michail Andreas Michalopoulos (6):
  ksmbd: verify the signature of session binding requests
  ksmbd: sign with the negotiated SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm
  ksmbd: use the channel signing key for session setup on a bound
    channel
  ksmbd: check a request before signing STATUS_NETWORK_SESSION_EXPIRED
  ksmbd: use the current command's header for signing in a compound
  ksmbd: consume the sequence number of a request on a failed session

 fs/smb/server/auth.c              |  14 ++-
 fs/smb/server/auth.h              |   4 +-
 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.c |   1 +
 fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_session.h |   2 +
 fs/smb/server/server.c            |  80 +++++++++++++++--
 fs/smb/server/smb2ops.c           |   4 +-
 fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c           | 145 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 7 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)


base-commit: ddfe51b0a0f5dc9e415cc2c8ad8db17532dd426b
-- 
2.43.0

  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-09 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-03 11:14 [PATCH 0/2] ksmbd: AES-GMAC signing support Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-03 11:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] ksmbd: sign with the negotiated SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-03 11:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] ksmbd: add AES-GMAC signing support Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-03 17:17   ` Ian Bridges
2026-11-03 17:57     ` mixalhs
2026-11-04  4:30       ` Namjae Jeon
2026-11-06 19:06     ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ksmbd: verify session setup requests before signing with their key Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-06 19:06       ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ksmbd: verify the signature of session binding requests Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-06 19:06       ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ksmbd: sign with the negotiated SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-06 19:06       ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ksmbd: use the channel signing key for session setup on a bound channel Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-06 19:06       ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ksmbd: check a request before signing STATUS_NETWORK_SESSION_EXPIRED Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-07  1:30       ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ksmbd: verify session setup requests before signing with their key Namjae Jeon
2026-11-09 19:41         ` Michail Andreas Michalopoulos [this message]
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 1/6] ksmbd: verify the signature of session binding requests Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 2/6] ksmbd: sign with the negotiated SMB 3.1.1 signing algorithm Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 3/6] ksmbd: use the channel signing key for session setup on a bound channel Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 4/6] ksmbd: check a request before signing STATUS_NETWORK_SESSION_EXPIRED Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 5/6] ksmbd: use the current command's header for signing in a compound Michail Andreas Michalopoulos
2026-11-09 19:41           ` [PATCH v3 6/6] ksmbd: consume the sequence number of a request on a failed session Michail Andreas Michalopoulos

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