[PATCH 6.6.y] ksmbd: make ksmbd thread names distinct by client IP

From: Ferry Meng

Date: Mon May 11 2026 - 08:55:21 EST


From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5da92a251e41f824d7e6b4d54d65dcdcfd69fda3 upstream.

[backport needed for 6.6-stable to close a residual
active_num_conn leak. Commits 787769c8cc50 (upstream 77ffbcac4e56,
"smb: server: fix leak of active_num_conn in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection()")
and 97f8d2648ef4 (upstream 6551300dc452, "smb: server: fix
active_num_conn leak on transport allocation failure") were
backported to 6.6.y, but upstream 77ffbcac4e56 was built on top
of this commit, which removes kernel_getpeername() and the
out_error: label in ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(). Without this
commit, the kernel_getpeername() failure path still calls
free_transport(t) and leaks active_num_conn, eventually
exhausting max_connections until the module is reloaded.]

This patch makes ksmbd thread names distinct by client IP address.

100943 ? S 0:00 [ksmbd:::ffff:10.177.110.57]
or
101752 ? S 0:00 [ksmbd:10.177.110.57]

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ferry Meng <mengferry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c | 39 ++++++++++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c b/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
index e55afd0c9bf4..f04aa8c504ff 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/transport_tcp.c
@@ -173,17 +173,6 @@ static struct kvec *get_conn_iovec(struct tcp_transport *t, unsigned int nr_segs
return new_iov;
}

-static unsigned short ksmbd_tcp_get_port(const struct sockaddr *sa)
-{
- switch (sa->sa_family) {
- case AF_INET:
- return ntohs(((struct sockaddr_in *)sa)->sin_port);
- case AF_INET6:
- return ntohs(((struct sockaddr_in6 *)sa)->sin6_port);
- }
- return 0;
-}
-
/**
* ksmbd_tcp_new_connection() - create a new tcp session on mount
* @client_sk: socket associated with new connection
@@ -195,7 +184,6 @@ static unsigned short ksmbd_tcp_get_port(const struct sockaddr *sa)
*/
static int ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(struct socket *client_sk)
{
- struct sockaddr *csin;
int rc = 0;
struct tcp_transport *t;
struct task_struct *handler;
@@ -208,27 +196,26 @@ static int ksmbd_tcp_new_connection(struct socket *client_sk)
return -ENOMEM;
}

- csin = KSMBD_TCP_PEER_SOCKADDR(KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn);
- if (kernel_getpeername(client_sk, csin) < 0) {
- pr_err("client ip resolution failed\n");
- rc = -EINVAL;
- goto out_error;
- }
-
+#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
+ if (client_sk->sk->sk_family == AF_INET6)
+ handler = kthread_run(ksmbd_conn_handler_loop,
+ KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn, "ksmbd:%pI6c",
+ &KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn->inet6_addr);
+ else
+ handler = kthread_run(ksmbd_conn_handler_loop,
+ KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn, "ksmbd:%pI4",
+ &KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn->inet_addr);
+#else
handler = kthread_run(ksmbd_conn_handler_loop,
- KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn,
- "ksmbd:%u",
- ksmbd_tcp_get_port(csin));
+ KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn, "ksmbd:%pI4",
+ &KSMBD_TRANS(t)->conn->inet_addr);
+#endif
if (IS_ERR(handler)) {
pr_err("cannot start conn thread\n");
rc = PTR_ERR(handler);
ksmbd_tcp_disconnect(KSMBD_TRANS(t));
}
return rc;
-
-out_error:
- free_transport(t);
- return rc;
}

/**
--
2.43.5