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ksmbd: fix signededness bug in smb_direct_prepare_negotiation()
authorNicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:58:57 +0000 (20:58 +0900)
committerSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 03:27:33 +0000 (21:27 -0600)
commit6b4f875aac344cdd52a1f34cc70ed2f874a65757
treebb51e04ec7c9d3a768a0539fd48c14c051a05e7f
parentc5794709bc9105935dbedef8b9cf9c06f2b559fa
ksmbd: fix signededness bug in smb_direct_prepare_negotiation()

smb_direct_prepare_negotiation() casts an unsigned __u32 value
from sp->max_recv_size and req->preferred_send_size to a signed
int before computing min_t(int, ...). A maliciously provided
preferred_send_size of 0x80000000 will return as smaller than
max_recv_size, and then be used to set the maximum allowed
alowed receive size for the next message.

By sending a second message with a large value (>1420 bytes)
the attacker can then achieve a heap buffer overflow.

This fix replaces min_t(int, ...) with min_t(u32)

Fixes: 0626e6641f6b ("cifsd: add server handler for central processing and tranport layers")
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
fs/smb/server/transport_rdma.c