[PATCH] smb: client: fix OOB write when compounding SMB2_IOCTL with encryption
From: Andrey Misiurov
Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 17:48:30 EST
On an encrypted ("seal") mount, SMB2_ioctl_init() keeps the IOCTL input
in a separate iov (iov[1]); iov[0] is a 448-byte buffer from
cifs_small_buf_get(). When such an IOCTL is not the last request of a
compound, smb2_set_next_command() pads it for alignment by copying the
whole request into iov[0]. A large enough input overflows that 448-byte
buffer and corrupts the slab; the copy also sets rq_nvec to 1, so the
input buffer is leaked too.
An unprivileged user can trigger it by creating a symlink with a long
target on such a mount: the native symlink is sent as
FSCTL_SET_REPARSE_POINT + QUERY_INFO + CLOSE in one compound, so the
IOCTL is not the last request.
With slub_debug red zones on the cifs_small_rq cache, the overflow is
caught on the next allocation from that cache in the same compound (the
0x61 bytes are the 'a' characters of the symlink target):
BUG cifs_small_rq (Not tainted): Object corrupt
[Left Redzone overwritten] 0xffff8a59c7790500-0xffff8a59c779053f First byte 0x61 instead of 0xbb
Call Trace:
check_object+0x1a8/0x350
alloc_debug_processing+0xab/0x110
___slab_alloc+0x7e/0x2f0
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x28d/0x4b0
mempool_alloc_slab+0x16/0x30
cifs_small_buf_get+0x1a/0x30 [cifs]
SMB2_close_init+0x8a/0x100 [cifs]
smb2_compound_op+0x2571/0x2b50 [cifs]
smb2_create_reparse_inode+0x27e/0x490 [cifs]
mknod_nfs+0x1ce/0x2e0 [cifs]
create_reparse_symlink+0x119/0x180 [cifs]
cifs_symlink+0x19f/0x8e0 [cifs]
vfs_symlink+0xa3/0x1b0
__x64_sys_symlink+0x41/0x70
Pad the input to a multiple of 8 bytes when encryption is required. The
request is then already aligned and smb2_set_next_command() no longer
copies it; InputCount still carries the real length.
Fixes: 90f7c100d2dd ("smb: client: fix compound alignment with encryption")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Andrey Misiurov <andrey.misyrov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
index b140ec0a71a8..71d9b698c208 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c
@@ -3432,6 +3432,7 @@ SMB2_ioctl_init(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct TCP_Server_Info *server,
unsigned int total_len;
int rc;
char *in_data_buf;
+ u32 in_buf_len = indatalen;
rc = smb2_ioctl_req_init(opcode, tcon, server,
(void **) &req, &total_len);
@@ -3439,15 +3440,18 @@ SMB2_ioctl_init(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct TCP_Server_Info *server,
return rc;
if (indatalen) {
+ if (smb3_encryption_required(tcon))
+ in_buf_len = ALIGN(indatalen, 8);
/*
* indatalen is usually small at a couple of bytes max, so
* just allocate through generic pool
*/
- in_data_buf = kmemdup(in_data, indatalen, GFP_NOFS);
+ in_data_buf = kzalloc(in_buf_len, GFP_NOFS);
if (!in_data_buf) {
cifs_small_buf_release(req);
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ memcpy(in_data_buf, in_data, indatalen);
}
req->CtlCode = cpu_to_le32(opcode);
@@ -3471,7 +3482,7 @@ SMB2_ioctl_init(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct TCP_Server_Info *server,
rqst->rq_nvec = 2;
iov[0].iov_len = total_len - 1;
iov[1].iov_base = in_data_buf;
- iov[1].iov_len = indatalen;
+ iov[1].iov_len = in_buf_len;
} else {
rqst->rq_nvec = 1;
iov[0].iov_len = total_len;
--
2.47.3