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smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer
authorBjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:57:17 +0000 (08:57 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 14 May 2026 13:31:14 +0000 (15:31 +0200)
commit9bdb2ca31368b7671949dfb94a5d57ffccd01edd
treef0987908d1080dfccb029f99ee7af2ef574ea602
parentb9561402489d41149f63e001a74384863b7b30a6
smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer

commit 5e489c6c47a2ac15edbaca153b9348e42c1eacab upstream.

Commit 62e7dd0a39c2d ("smb: common: change the data type of num_aces
to le16") split struct smb_acl's __le32 num_aces field into __le16
num_aces and __le16 reserved. The reserved field corresponds to Sbz2
in the MS-DTYP ACL wire format, which must be zero [1].

When building an ACL descriptor in build_sec_desc(), we are using a
kmalloc()'ed descriptor buffer and writing the fields explicitly using
le16() writes now. This never writes to the 2 byte reserved field,
leaving it as uninitialized heap data.

When the reserved field happens to contain non-zero slab garbage,
Samba rejects the security descriptor with "ndr_pull_security_descriptor
failed: Range Error", causing chmod to fail with EINVAL.

Change kmalloc() to kzalloc() to ensure the entire buffer is
zero-initialized.

Fixes: 62e7dd0a39c2d ("smb: common: change the data type of num_aces to le16")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bjoern Doebel <doebel@amazon.de>
Assisted-by: Kiro:claude-opus-4.6
[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/20233ed8-a6c6-4097-aafa-dd545ed24428
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c