This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue to the 6.4-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-fix-session-state-check-in-reconnect-to-avoid-u.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b90ab7a1b09367d279343de4a49c698a3b6731e6 Author: Winston Wen <wentao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jun 26 11:42:56 2023 +0800 cifs: fix session state check in reconnect to avoid use-after-free issue [ Upstream commit 99f280700b4cc02d5f141b8d15f8e9fad0418f65 ] Don't collect exiting session in smb2_reconnect_server(), because it will be released soon. Note that the exiting session will stay in server->smb_ses_list until it complete the cifs_free_ipc() and logoff() and then delete itself from the list. Signed-off-by: Winston Wen <wentao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c index 17fe212ab895d..e04766fe6f803 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c @@ -3797,6 +3797,12 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_struct *work) spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); list_for_each_entry(ses, &pserver->smb_ses_list, smb_ses_list) { + spin_lock(&ses->ses_lock); + if (ses->ses_status == SES_EXITING) { + spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); + continue; + } + spin_unlock(&ses->ses_lock); tcon_selected = false;