This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smb: client: fix potential UAF in cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() to the 6.8-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: smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e0e50401cc3921c9eaf1b0e667db174519ea939f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:34:04 -0300 Subject: smb: client: fix potential UAF in cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit e0e50401cc3921c9eaf1b0e667db174519ea939f upstream. Skip sessions that are being teared down (status == SES_EXITING) to avoid UAF. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/smb/client/connect.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c @@ -178,6 +178,8 @@ cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect(struct T spin_lock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); list_for_each_entry(ses, &pserver->smb_ses_list, smb_ses_list) { + if (cifs_ses_exiting(ses)) + continue; spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); for (i = 0; i < ses->chan_count; i++) { if (!ses->chans[i].server) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_stats_proc_write.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-is_valid_oplock_break.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-guarantee-refcounted-children-from-parent-session.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-serialise-cifs_construct_tcon-with-cifs_mount_mutex.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_dump_full_key.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-refresh-referral-without-acquiring-refpath_lock.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-smb2_is_network_name_deleted.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_debug_files_proc_show.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-handle-dfs-tcons-in-cifs_construct_tcon.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-uaf-in-smb2_reconnect_server.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-smb2_is_valid_lease_break.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-cifs_stats_proc_show.patch queue-6.8/smb-client-fix-potential-uaf-in-smb2_is_valid_oplock_break.patch