[PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] smb: client: correctly handle ErrorContextData as a flexible array
From: Alva Lan
Date: Mon May 18 2026 - 04:17:13 EST
From: Liang Jie <liangjie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 215b7f9ecb8d7c14d56febdcdd246f3579c32aba ]
The `smb2_symlink_err_rsp` structure was previously defined with
`ErrorContextData` as a single `__u8` byte. However, the `ErrorContextData`
field is intended to be a variable-length array based on `ErrorDataLength`.
This mismatch leads to incorrect pointer arithmetic and potential memory
access issues when processing error contexts.
Updates the `ErrorContextData` field to be a flexible array
(`__u8 ErrorContextData[]`). Additionally, it modifies the corresponding
casts in the `symlink_data()` function to properly handle the flexible
array, ensuring correct memory calculations and data handling.
These changes improve the robustness of SMB2 symlink error processing.
Signed-off-by: Liang Jie <liangjie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Tom Talpey <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Remove the __counted_by_le annotation in v6.6. ]
Signed-off-by: Alva Lan <alvalan9@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/smb2file.c | 4 ++--
fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2file.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2file.c
index 4e7d5c612256..3a5b62b29806 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2file.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2file.c
@@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ static struct smb2_symlink_err_rsp *symlink_data(const struct kvec *iov)
end = (struct smb2_error_context_rsp *)((u8 *)err + iov->iov_len);
do {
if (le32_to_cpu(p->ErrorId) == SMB2_ERROR_ID_DEFAULT) {
- sym = (struct smb2_symlink_err_rsp *)&p->ErrorContextData;
+ sym = (struct smb2_symlink_err_rsp *)p->ErrorContextData;
break;
}
cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: skipping unhandled error context: 0x%x\n",
__func__, le32_to_cpu(p->ErrorId));
len = ALIGN(le32_to_cpu(p->ErrorDataLength), 8);
- p = (struct smb2_error_context_rsp *)((u8 *)&p->ErrorContextData + len);
+ p = (struct smb2_error_context_rsp *)(p->ErrorContextData + len);
} while (p < end);
} else if (le32_to_cpu(err->ByteCount) >= sizeof(*sym) &&
iov->iov_len >= SMB2_SYMLINK_STRUCT_SIZE) {
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.h b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.h
index 076d9e83e1a0..3c09a58dfd07 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ struct smb2_symlink_err_rsp {
struct smb2_error_context_rsp {
__le32 ErrorDataLength;
__le32 ErrorId;
- __u8 ErrorContextData; /* ErrorDataLength long array */
+ __u8 ErrorContextData[];
} __packed;
/* ErrorId values */
--
2.43.0