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Message-ID: <2025070933-CVE-2025-38244-6c2c@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2025 12:42:36 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38244: smb: client: fix potential deadlock when reconnecting channels

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix potential deadlock when reconnecting channels

Fix cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() to take the correct lock order
and prevent the following deadlock from happening

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.16.0-rc3-build2+ #1301 Tainted: G S      W
------------------------------------------------------
cifsd/6055 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88810ad56038 (&tcp_ses->srv_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x134/0x200

but task is already holding lock:
ffff888119c64330 (&ret_buf->chan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0xcf/0x200

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #2 (&ret_buf->chan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270
       __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780
       lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       cifs_setup_session+0x81/0x4b0
       cifs_get_smb_ses+0x771/0x900
       cifs_mount_get_session+0x7e/0x170
       cifs_mount+0x92/0x2d0
       cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x161/0x460
       smb3_get_tree+0x55/0x90
       vfs_get_tree+0x46/0x180
       do_new_mount+0x1b0/0x2e0
       path_mount+0x6ee/0x740
       do_mount+0x98/0xe0
       __do_sys_mount+0x148/0x180
       do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

-> #1 (&ret_buf->ses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270
       __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780
       lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       cifs_match_super+0x101/0x320
       sget+0xab/0x270
       cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1e0/0x460
       smb3_get_tree+0x55/0x90
       vfs_get_tree+0x46/0x180
       do_new_mount+0x1b0/0x2e0
       path_mount+0x6ee/0x740
       do_mount+0x98/0xe0
       __do_sys_mount+0x148/0x180
       do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

-> #0 (&tcp_ses->srv_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       check_noncircular+0x95/0xc0
       check_prev_add+0x115/0x2f0
       validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270
       __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780
       lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x134/0x200
       __cifs_reconnect+0x8f/0x500
       cifs_handle_standard+0x112/0x280
       cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x64d/0xbc0
       kthread+0x2f7/0x310
       ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230
       ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &tcp_ses->srv_lock --> &ret_buf->ses_lock --> &ret_buf->chan_lock

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(&ret_buf->chan_lock);
                               lock(&ret_buf->ses_lock);
                               lock(&ret_buf->chan_lock);
  lock(&tcp_ses->srv_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by cifsd/6055:
 #0: ffffffff857de398 (&cifs_tcp_ses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x7b/0x200
 #1: ffff888119c64060 (&ret_buf->ses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x9c/0x200
 #2: ffff888119c64330 (&ret_buf->chan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0xcf/0x200

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38244 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit d7d7a66aacd6fd8ca57baf08a7bac5421282f6f8 and fixed in 6.6.96 with commit c82c7041258d96e3286f6790ab700e4edd3cc9e3
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit d7d7a66aacd6fd8ca57baf08a7bac5421282f6f8 and fixed in 6.12.36 with commit 7f3ead8ebc0ef65b6c89a13912b4e80218425629
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit d7d7a66aacd6fd8ca57baf08a7bac5421282f6f8 and fixed in 6.15.5 with commit fe035dc78aa6ca8f862857d45beaf7a0e03206ca
	Issue introduced in 6.0 with commit d7d7a66aacd6fd8ca57baf08a7bac5421282f6f8 and fixed in 6.16-rc4 with commit 711741f94ac3cf9f4e3aa73aa171e76d188c0819

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38244
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
	fs/smb/client/connect.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c82c7041258d96e3286f6790ab700e4edd3cc9e3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f3ead8ebc0ef65b6c89a13912b4e80218425629
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe035dc78aa6ca8f862857d45beaf7a0e03206ca
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/711741f94ac3cf9f4e3aa73aa171e76d188c0819

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