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authorWang Zhaolong <wangzhaolong@huaweicloud.com>2025-08-12 14:32:07 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-08-20 18:30:57 +0200
commit5a9c80656775c540ab00b1fa5444897310083b28 (patch)
treef17952d0cd9a55d4912b760e2de982f52a27f44d
parent4ceb0bd4ffd009821b585ce6a8033b12b59fb5fb (diff)
smb: client: fix netns refcount leak after net_passive changes
[ Upstream commit 59b33fab4ca4d7dacc03367082777627e05d0323 ] After commit 5c70eb5c593d ("net: better track kernel sockets lifetime"), kernel sockets now use net_passive reference counting. However, commit 95d2b9f693ff ("Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod"") restored the manual socket refcount manipulation without adapting to this new mechanism, causing a memory leak. The issue can be reproduced by[1]: 1. Creating a network namespace 2. Mounting and Unmounting CIFS within the namespace 3. Deleting the namespace Some memory leaks may appear after a period of time following step 3. unreferenced object 0xffff9951419f6b00 (size 256): comm "ip", pid 447, jiffies 4294692389 (age 14.730s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 1b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 77 c2 44 51 99 ff ff .........w.DQ... backtrace: __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x30e/0x3d0 __kmalloc+0x52/0x120 net_alloc_generic+0x1d/0x30 copy_net_ns+0x86/0x200 create_new_namespaces+0x117/0x300 unshare_nsproxy_namespaces+0x60/0xa0 ksys_unshare+0x148/0x360 __x64_sys_unshare+0x12/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x110 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2 ... unreferenced object 0xffff9951442e7500 (size 32): comm "mount.cifs", pid 475, jiffies 4294693782 (age 13.343s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 40 c5 38 46 51 99 ff ff 18 01 96 42 51 99 ff ff @.8FQ......BQ... 01 00 00 00 6f 00 c5 07 6f 00 d8 07 00 00 00 00 ....o...o....... backtrace: __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x30e/0x3d0 kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0x90 ref_tracker_alloc+0x8e/0x1d0 sk_alloc+0x18c/0x1c0 inet_create+0xf1/0x370 __sock_create+0xd7/0x1e0 generic_ip_connect+0x1d4/0x5a0 [cifs] cifs_get_tcp_session+0x5d0/0x8a0 [cifs] cifs_mount_get_session+0x47/0x1b0 [cifs] dfs_mount_share+0xfa/0xa10 [cifs] cifs_mount+0x68/0x2b0 [cifs] cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x10b/0x760 [cifs] smb3_get_tree+0x112/0x2e0 [cifs] vfs_get_tree+0x29/0xf0 path_mount+0x2d4/0xa00 __se_sys_mount+0x165/0x1d0 Root cause: When creating kernel sockets, sk_alloc() calls net_passive_inc() for sockets with sk_net_refcnt=0. The CIFS code manually converts kernel sockets to user sockets by setting sk_net_refcnt=1, but doesn't call the corresponding net_passive_dec(). This creates an imbalance in the net_passive counter, which prevents the network namespace from being destroyed when its last user reference is dropped. As a result, the entire namespace and all its associated resources remain allocated. Timeline of patches leading to this issue: - commit ef7134c7fc48 ("smb: client: Fix use-after-free of network namespace.") in v6.12 fixed the original netns UAF by manually managing socket refcounts - commit e9f2517a3e18 ("smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod") in v6.13 attempted to use kernel sockets but introduced TCP timer issues - commit 5c70eb5c593d ("net: better track kernel sockets lifetime") in v6.14-rc5 introduced the net_passive mechanism with sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() for proper socket conversion - commit 95d2b9f693ff ("Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod"") in v6.15-rc3 reverted to manual refcount management without adapting to the new net_passive changes Fix this by using sk_net_refcnt_upgrade() which properly handles the net_passive counter when converting kernel sockets to user sockets. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220343 [1] Fixes: 95d2b9f693ff ("Revert "smb: client: fix TCP timers deadlock after rmmod"") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Wang Zhaolong <wangzhaolong@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/smb/client/connect.c9
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
index 0caf04df3cc5..0d4c811e0334 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -3165,18 +3165,15 @@ generic_ip_connect(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
struct net *net = cifs_net_ns(server);
struct sock *sk;
- rc = __sock_create(net, sfamily, SOCK_STREAM,
- IPPROTO_TCP, &server->ssocket, 1);
+ rc = sock_create_kern(net, sfamily, SOCK_STREAM,
+ IPPROTO_TCP, &server->ssocket);
if (rc < 0) {
cifs_server_dbg(VFS, "Error %d creating socket\n", rc);
return rc;
}
sk = server->ssocket->sk;
- __netns_tracker_free(net, &sk->ns_tracker, false);
- sk->sk_net_refcnt = 1;
- get_net_track(net, &sk->ns_tracker, GFP_KERNEL);
- sock_inuse_add(net, 1);
+ sk_net_refcnt_upgrade(sk);
/* BB other socket options to set KEEPALIVE, NODELAY? */
cifs_dbg(FYI, "Socket created\n");