This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: prevent infinite recursion in CIFSGetDFSRefer() to the 4.19-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-prevent-infinite-recursion-in-cifsgetdfsrefer.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 09ba47b44d26b475bbdf9c80db9e0193d2b58956 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:14:22 -0300 Subject: cifs: prevent infinite recursion in CIFSGetDFSRefer() From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 09ba47b44d26b475bbdf9c80db9e0193d2b58956 upstream. We can't call smb_init() in CIFSGetDFSRefer() as cifs_reconnect_tcon() may end up calling CIFSGetDFSRefer() again to get new DFS referrals and thus causing an infinite recursion. Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.2 Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c @@ -4895,8 +4895,13 @@ CIFSGetDFSRefer(const unsigned int xid, return -ENODEV; getDFSRetry: - rc = smb_init(SMB_COM_TRANSACTION2, 15, ses->tcon_ipc, (void **) &pSMB, - (void **) &pSMBr); + /* + * Use smb_init_no_reconnect() instead of smb_init() as + * CIFSGetDFSRefer() may be called from cifs_reconnect_tcon() and thus + * causing an infinite recursion. + */ + rc = smb_init_no_reconnect(SMB_COM_TRANSACTION2, 15, ses->tcon_ipc, + (void **)&pSMB, (void **)&pSMBr); if (rc) return rc; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.19/cifs-prevent-infinite-recursion-in-cifsgetdfsrefer.patch queue-4.19/cifs-empty-interface-list-when-server-doesn-t-support-query-interfaces.patch queue-4.19/cifs-fix-dfs-traversal-oops-without-config_cifs_dfs_upcall.patch