smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer

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>

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c
index ec5d477793040c0854814d6bac347156a99bc1ab..a2750f1e3d90bd5f394f441b4e401a49c33d37a5 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c
@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ id_mode_to_cifs_acl(struct inode *inode, const char *path, __u64 *pnmode,
         * descriptor parameters, and security descriptor itself
         */
        nsecdesclen = max_t(u32, nsecdesclen, DEFAULT_SEC_DESC_LEN);
-       pnntsd = kmalloc(nsecdesclen, GFP_KERNEL);
+       pnntsd = kzalloc(nsecdesclen, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!pnntsd) {
                kfree(pntsd);
                cifs_put_tlink(tlink);