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smb: client: use kzalloc to zero-initialize security descriptor buffer
commit 5e489c6 upstream. Commit 62e7dd0 ("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: 62e7dd0 ("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>
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fs/smb/client/cifsacl.c

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@@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ id_mode_to_cifs_acl(struct inode *inode, const char *path, __u64 *pnmode,
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* descriptor parameters, and security descriptor itself
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*/
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nsecdesclen = max_t(u32, nsecdesclen, DEFAULT_SEC_DESC_LEN);
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pnntsd = kmalloc(nsecdesclen, GFP_KERNEL);
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pnntsd = kzalloc(nsecdesclen, GFP_KERNEL);
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if (!pnntsd) {
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kfree(pntsd);
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cifs_put_tlink(tlink);

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