This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: create sd context must be a multiple of 8 to the 5.13-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cifs-create-sd-context-must-be-a-multiple-of-8.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7d3fc01796fc895e5fcce45c994c5a8db8120a8d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2021 18:37:22 +0000 Subject: cifs: create sd context must be a multiple of 8 From: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 7d3fc01796fc895e5fcce45c994c5a8db8120a8d upstream. We used to follow the rule earlier that the create SD context always be a multiple of 8. However, with the change: cifs: refactor create_sd_buf() and and avoid corrupting the buffer ...we recompute the length, and we failed that rule. Fixing that with this change. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.10+ Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -2375,7 +2375,7 @@ create_sd_buf(umode_t mode, bool set_own memcpy(aclptr, &acl, sizeof(struct cifs_acl)); buf->ccontext.DataLength = cpu_to_le32(ptr - (__u8 *)&buf->sd); - *len = ptr - (__u8 *)buf; + *len = roundup(ptr - (__u8 *)buf, 8); return buf; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.13/cifs-create-sd-context-must-be-a-multiple-of-8.patch queue-5.13/cifs-call-close-synchronously-during-unlink-rename-lease-break.patch queue-5.13/cifs-handle-race-conditions-during-rename.patch