Hi Colin, Thanks for reporting this. I'll submit a fix. Regards, Shyam -----Original Message----- From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2021 6:14 PM To: Shyam Prasad <Shyam.Prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; samba-technical@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [EXTERNAL] re: cifs: Retain old ACEs when converting between mode bits and ACL. Hi, Static analysis on linux-next with Coverity had detected a potential null pointer dereference with the following commit: commit f5065508897a922327f32223082325d10b069ebc Author: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Feb 12 04:38:43 2021 -0800 cifs: Retain old ACEs when converting between mode bits and ACL. The analysis is as follows: 1258 /* Convert permission bits from mode to equivalent CIFS ACL */ 1259 static int build_sec_desc(struct cifs_ntsd *pntsd, struct cifs_ntsd *pnntsd, 1260 __u32 secdesclen, __u32 *pnsecdesclen, __u64 *pnmode, kuid_t uid, kgid_t gid, 1261 bool mode_from_sid, bool id_from_sid, int *aclflag) 1262 { 1263 int rc = 0; 1264 __u32 dacloffset; 1265 __u32 ndacloffset; 1266 __u32 sidsoffset; 1267 struct cifs_sid *owner_sid_ptr, *group_sid_ptr; 1268 struct cifs_sid *nowner_sid_ptr = NULL, *ngroup_sid_ptr = NULL; 1. assign_zero: Assigning: dacl_ptr = NULL. 1269 struct cifs_acl *dacl_ptr = NULL; /* no need for SACL ptr */ 1270 struct cifs_acl *ndacl_ptr = NULL; /* no need for SACL ptr */ 1271 char *end_of_acl = ((char *)pntsd) + secdesclen; 1272 u16 size = 0; 1273 1274 dacloffset = le32_to_cpu(pntsd->dacloffset); 2. Condition dacloffset, taking false branch. 1275 if (dacloffset) { 1276 dacl_ptr = (struct cifs_acl *)((char *)pntsd + dacloffset); 1277 if (end_of_acl < (char *)dacl_ptr + le16_to_cpu(dacl_ptr->size)) { 1278 cifs_dbg(VFS, "Existing ACL size is wrong. Discarding old ACL\n"); 1279 dacl_ptr = NULL; NOTE: dacl_ptr is set to NULL and dacloffset is true 1280 } 1281 } 1282 1283 owner_sid_ptr = (struct cifs_sid *)((char *)pntsd + 1284 le32_to_cpu(pntsd->osidoffset)); 1285 group_sid_ptr = (struct cifs_sid *)((char *)pntsd + 1286 le32_to_cpu(pntsd->gsidoffset)); 1287 3. Condition pnmode, taking true branch. 4. Condition *pnmode != 18446744073709551615ULL, taking false branch. 1288 if (pnmode && *pnmode != NO_CHANGE_64) { /* chmod */ 1289 ndacloffset = sizeof(struct cifs_ntsd); 1290 ndacl_ptr = (struct cifs_acl *)((char *)pnntsd + ndacloffset); 1291 ndacl_ptr->revision = 1292 dacloffset ? dacl_ptr->revision : cpu_to_le16(ACL_REVISION); 1293 1294 ndacl_ptr->size = cpu_to_le16(0); 1295 ndacl_ptr->num_aces = cpu_to_le32(0); 1296 1297 rc = set_chmod_dacl(dacl_ptr, ndacl_ptr, owner_sid_ptr, group_sid_ptr, 1298 pnmode, mode_from_sid); 1299 1300 sidsoffset = ndacloffset + le16_to_cpu(ndacl_ptr->size); 1301 /* copy the non-dacl portion of secdesc */ 1302 *pnsecdesclen = copy_sec_desc(pntsd, pnntsd, sidsoffset, 1303 NULL, NULL); 1304 1305 *aclflag |= CIFS_ACL_DACL; 1306 } else { 1307 ndacloffset = sizeof(struct cifs_ntsd); 1308 ndacl_ptr = (struct cifs_acl *)((char *)pnntsd + ndacloffset); 5. Condition dacloffset, taking false branch. 1309 ndacl_ptr->revision = 1310 dacloffset ? dacl_ptr->revision : cpu_to_le16(ACL_REVISION); Explicit null dereferenced (FORWARD_NULL) 6. var_deref_op: Dereferencing null pointer dacl_ptr. 1311 ndacl_ptr->num_aces = dacl_ptr->num_aces; Line 1309..1311, when dacloffset and dacl_ptr is null we hit a null ptr dereference on dacl_ptr.