[PATCH 5.10] cifs: fix small mempool leak in SMB2_negotiate()

From: Anastasia Belova
Date: Thu Jul 03 2025 - 05:17:02 EST


From: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@xxxxxxx>

commit 27893dfc1285f80f80f46b3b8c95f5d15d2e66d0 upstream.

In some cases of failure (dialect mismatches) in SMB2_negotiate(), after
the request is sent, the checks would return -EIO when they should be
rather setting rc = -EIO and jumping to neg_exit to free the response
buffer from mempool.

Signed-off-by: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anastasia Belova <abelova@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Backport fix for CVE-2022-49938
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 12 +++++++-----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
index 4197096e7fdb..fa75dc0a372d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -883,23 +883,24 @@ SMB2_negotiate(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses)
} else if (rc != 0)
goto neg_exit;

+ rc = -EIO;
if (strcmp(server->vals->version_string,
SMB3ANY_VERSION_STRING) == 0) {
if (rsp->DialectRevision == cpu_to_le16(SMB20_PROT_ID)) {
cifs_server_dbg(VFS,
"SMB2 dialect returned but not requested\n");
- return -EIO;
+ goto neg_exit;
} else if (rsp->DialectRevision == cpu_to_le16(SMB21_PROT_ID)) {
cifs_server_dbg(VFS,
"SMB2.1 dialect returned but not requested\n");
- return -EIO;
+ goto neg_exit;
}
} else if (strcmp(server->vals->version_string,
SMBDEFAULT_VERSION_STRING) == 0) {
if (rsp->DialectRevision == cpu_to_le16(SMB20_PROT_ID)) {
cifs_server_dbg(VFS,
"SMB2 dialect returned but not requested\n");
- return -EIO;
+ goto neg_exit;
} else if (rsp->DialectRevision == cpu_to_le16(SMB21_PROT_ID)) {
/* ops set to 3.0 by default for default so update */
server->ops = &smb21_operations;
@@ -913,7 +914,7 @@ SMB2_negotiate(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses)
/* if requested single dialect ensure returned dialect matched */
cifs_server_dbg(VFS, "Invalid 0x%x dialect returned: not requested\n",
le16_to_cpu(rsp->DialectRevision));
- return -EIO;
+ goto neg_exit;
}

cifs_dbg(FYI, "mode 0x%x\n", rsp->SecurityMode);
@@ -931,9 +932,10 @@ SMB2_negotiate(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses)
else {
cifs_server_dbg(VFS, "Invalid dialect returned by server 0x%x\n",
le16_to_cpu(rsp->DialectRevision));
- rc = -EIO;
goto neg_exit;
}
+
+ rc = 0;
server->dialect = le16_to_cpu(rsp->DialectRevision);

/*
--
2.43.0