This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: release auth_key.response for reconnect. to the 3.18-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-release-auth_key.response-for-reconnect.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f5c4ba816315d3b813af16f5571f86c8d4e897bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 18:48:33 +0800 Subject: cifs: release auth_key.response for reconnect. From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f5c4ba816315d3b813af16f5571f86c8d4e897bd upstream. There is a race that cause cifs reconnect in cifs_mount, - cifs_mount - cifs_get_tcp_session - [ start thread cifs_demultiplex_thread - cifs_read_from_socket: -ECONNABORTED - DELAY_WORK smb2_reconnect_server ] - cifs_setup_session - [ smb2_reconnect_server ] auth_key.response was allocated in cifs_setup_session, and will release when the session destoried. So when session re- connect, auth_key.response should be check and released. Tested with my system: CIFS VFS: Free previous auth_key.response = ffff8800320bbf80 A simple auth_key.response allocation call trace: - cifs_setup_session - SMB2_sess_setup - SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_authenticate - build_ntlmssp_auth_blob - setup_ntlmv2_rsp Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -3958,6 +3958,14 @@ cifs_setup_session(const unsigned int xi cifs_dbg(FYI, "Security Mode: 0x%x Capabilities: 0x%x TimeAdjust: %d\n", server->sec_mode, server->capabilities, server->timeAdj); + if (ses->auth_key.response) { + cifs_dbg(VFS, "Free previous auth_key.response = %p\n", + ses->auth_key.response); + kfree(ses->auth_key.response); + ses->auth_key.response = NULL; + ses->auth_key.len = 0; + } + if (server->ops->sess_setup) rc = server->ops->sess_setup(xid, ses, nls_info); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/cifs-release-cifs-root_cred-after-exit_cifs.patch queue-3.18/cifs-release-auth_key.response-for-reconnect.patch