vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38523: kernel: cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 16, 2025
Added
Jan 27, 2026
Modified
Jan 27, 2026

Description

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

cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy

The handling of received data in the smbdirect client code involves using
copy_to_iter() to copy data from the smbd_reponse struct's packet trailer
to a folioq buffer provided by netfslib that encapsulates a chunk of
pagecache.

If, however, CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y, this will result in the checks
then performed in copy_to_iter() oopsing with something like the following:

CIFS: Attempting to mount //172.31.9.1/test
CIFS: VFS: RDMA transport established
usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'smbd_response_0000000091e24ea1' (offset 81, size 63)!
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
...
RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__check_heap_object+0xe3/0x120
__check_object_size+0x4dc/0x6d0
smbd_recv+0x77f/0xfe0 [cifs]
cifs_readv_from_socket+0x276/0x8f0 [cifs]
cifs_read_from_socket+0xcd/0x120 [cifs]
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x7e9/0x2d50 [cifs]
kthread+0x396/0x830
ret_from_fork+0x2b8/0x3b0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

The problem is that the smbd_response slab's packet field isn't marked as
being permitted for usercopy.

Fix this by passing parameters to kmem_slab_create() to indicate that
copy_to_iter() is permitted from the packet region of the smbd_response
slab objects, less the header space.

Solutions

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