[PATCH v3] smb: client: validate DFS referral PathConsumed

From: Yichong Chen

Date: Thu Jul 16 2026 - 01:25:50 EST


parse_dfs_referrals() validates that the response contains the fixed
referral entry array and, on for-next, the per-referral string offsets.
However, the response also contains a PathConsumed value that is later
used for DFS path parsing.

If a malformed response provides a PathConsumed value larger than the
search name, later DFS parsing can advance beyond the end of the path.

Validate PathConsumed against the search name length before storing it in
the parsed referral.

Fixes: 4ecce920e13a ("CIFS: move DFS response parsing out of SMB1 code")
Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <chenyichong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Base:
- Tree: git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git
- Branch: for-next
- Commit: d7d2adcd022b ("smb/client: flush dirty data before punching a hole")

Changes in v3:
- Rebase on cifs-2.6.git for-next.
- Keep the string offset checks already present in for-next and only add
the remaining PathConsumed validation.
- Rename the subject to describe the remaining PathConsumed fix.

Changes in v2:
- Validate non-Unicode PathConsumed against strlen(searchName), as pointed
out by Sashiko and Steve.

Changes in v1:
- Validate DFS referral string offsets and Unicode PathConsumed.

fs/smb/client/misc.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/misc.c b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
index e4bac2a0b85d..b9c59b2cf76a 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/misc.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
@@ -682,6 +682,8 @@ parse_dfs_referrals(struct get_dfs_referral_rsp *rsp, u32 rsp_size,
int i, rc = 0;
char *data_end;
struct dfs_referral_level_3 *ref;
+ unsigned int path_consumed;
+ size_t search_name_len;

if (rsp_size < sizeof(*rsp)) {
cifs_dbg(VFS | ONCE,
@@ -728,6 +730,7 @@ parse_dfs_referrals(struct get_dfs_referral_rsp *rsp, u32 rsp_size,
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
}
+ search_name_len = strlen(searchName);

/* collect necessary data from referrals */
for (i = 0; i < *num_of_nodes; i++) {
@@ -736,21 +739,34 @@ parse_dfs_referrals(struct get_dfs_referral_rsp *rsp, u32 rsp_size,
struct dfs_info3_param *node = (*target_nodes)+i;

node->flags = le32_to_cpu(rsp->DFSFlags);
+ path_consumed = le16_to_cpu(rsp->PathConsumed);
if (is_unicode) {
- __le16 *tmp = kmalloc(strlen(searchName)*2 + 2,
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tmp == NULL) {
+ size_t search_name_utf16_len = search_name_len * 2 + 2;
+ __le16 *tmp;
+
+ if (path_consumed > search_name_utf16_len) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
+ }
+
+ tmp = kmalloc(search_name_utf16_len, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!tmp) {
rc = -ENOMEM;
goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
}
- cifsConvertToUTF16((__le16 *) tmp, searchName,
+ cifsConvertToUTF16((__le16 *)tmp, searchName,
PATH_MAX, nls_codepage, remap);
- node->path_consumed = cifs_utf16_bytes(tmp,
- le16_to_cpu(rsp->PathConsumed),
- nls_codepage);
+ node->path_consumed = cifs_utf16_bytes(tmp, path_consumed,
+ nls_codepage);
kfree(tmp);
- } else
- node->path_consumed = le16_to_cpu(rsp->PathConsumed);
+ } else {
+ if (path_consumed > search_name_len) {
+ rc = -EINVAL;
+ goto parse_DFS_referrals_exit;
+ }
+
+ node->path_consumed = path_consumed;
+ }

node->server_type = le16_to_cpu(ref->ServerType);
node->ref_flag = le16_to_cpu(ref->ReferralEntryFlags);
--
2.51.0