This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ksmbd: fix uninitialized pointer read in smb2_create_link() to the 6.3-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: ksmbd-fix-uninitialized-pointer-read-in-smb2_create_link.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.3 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From df14afeed2e6c1bbadef7d2f9c46887bbd6d8d94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 10:02:27 +0900 Subject: ksmbd: fix uninitialized pointer read in smb2_create_link() From: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> commit df14afeed2e6c1bbadef7d2f9c46887bbd6d8d94 upstream. There is a case that file_present is true and path is uninitialized. This patch change file_present is set to false by default and set to true when patch is initialized. Fixes: 74d7970febf7 ("ksmbd: fix racy issue from using ->d_parent and ->d_name") Reported-by: Coverity Scan <scan-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/ksmbd/smb2pdu.c @@ -5560,7 +5560,7 @@ static int smb2_create_link(struct ksmbd { char *link_name = NULL, *target_name = NULL, *pathname = NULL; struct path path; - bool file_present = true; + bool file_present = false; int rc; if (buf_len < (u64)sizeof(struct smb2_file_link_info) + @@ -5593,8 +5593,8 @@ static int smb2_create_link(struct ksmbd if (rc) { if (rc != -ENOENT) goto out; - file_present = false; - } + } else + file_present = true; if (file_info->ReplaceIfExists) { if (file_present) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.3/ksmbd-validate-session-id-and-tree-id-in-the-compound-request.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-add-mnt_want_write-to-ksmbd-vfs-functions.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-remove-internal.h-include.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-validate-command-payload-size.patch queue-6.3/fs-introduce-lock_rename_child-helper.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-call-putname-after-using-the-last-component.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-fix-out-of-bound-read-in-smb2_write.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-fix-uninitialized-pointer-read-in-ksmbd_vfs_rename.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-fix-uninitialized-pointer-read-in-smb2_create_link.patch queue-6.3/ksmbd-fix-racy-issue-from-using-d_parent-and-d_name.patch