This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smb: client: fix possible double free in smb2_set_ea() to the 6.11-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-possible-double-free-in-smb2_set_ea.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit c062cbd3bd65b432a4d5c844079121368634ff50 Author: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 15 18:20:37 2024 +0800 smb: client: fix possible double free in smb2_set_ea() [ Upstream commit 19ebc1e6cab334a8193398d4152deb76019b5d34 ] Clang static checker(scan-build) warning: fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c:1304:2: Attempt to free released memory. 1304 | kfree(ea); | ^~~~~~~~~ There is a double free in such case: 'ea is initialized to NULL' -> 'first successful memory allocation for ea' -> 'something failed, goto sea_exit' -> 'first memory release for ea' -> 'goto replay_again' -> 'second goto sea_exit before allocate memory for ea' -> 'second memory release for ea resulted in double free'. Re-initialie 'ea' to NULL near to the replay_again label, it can fix this double free problem. Fixes: 4f1fffa23769 ("cifs: commands that are retried should have replay flag set") Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c index e9be7b43bb6b8..b9e332443b0d9 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c @@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ smb2_set_ea(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct cifs_fid fid; unsigned int size[1]; void *data[1]; - struct smb2_file_full_ea_info *ea = NULL; + struct smb2_file_full_ea_info *ea; struct smb2_query_info_rsp *rsp; int rc, used_len = 0; int retries = 0, cur_sleep = 1; @@ -1177,6 +1177,7 @@ smb2_set_ea(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_tcon *tcon, if (!utf16_path) return -ENOMEM; + ea = NULL; resp_buftype[0] = resp_buftype[1] = resp_buftype[2] = CIFS_NO_BUFFER; vars = kzalloc(sizeof(*vars), GFP_KERNEL); if (!vars) {