Bug 2388948 (CVE-2025-38523)

Summary: CVE-2025-38523 kernel: cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-16 12:03:10 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix the smbd_response slab to allow usercopy

The handling of received data in the smbdirect client code involves using
copy_to_iter() to copy data from the smbd_reponse struct's packet trailer
to a folioq buffer provided by netfslib that encapsulates a chunk of
pagecache.

If, however, CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY=y, this will result in the checks
then performed in copy_to_iter() oopsing with something like the following:

 CIFS: Attempting to mount //172.31.9.1/test
 CIFS: VFS: RDMA transport established
 usercopy: Kernel memory exposure attempt detected from SLUB object 'smbd_response_0000000091e24ea1' (offset 81, size 63)!
 ------------[ cut here ]------------
 kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
 ...
 RIP: 0010:usercopy_abort+0x6c/0x80
 ...
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __check_heap_object+0xe3/0x120
  __check_object_size+0x4dc/0x6d0
  smbd_recv+0x77f/0xfe0 [cifs]
  cifs_readv_from_socket+0x276/0x8f0 [cifs]
  cifs_read_from_socket+0xcd/0x120 [cifs]
  cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x7e9/0x2d50 [cifs]
  kthread+0x396/0x830
  ret_from_fork+0x2b8/0x3b0
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

The problem is that the smbd_response slab's packet field isn't marked as
being permitted for usercopy.

Fix this by passing parameters to kmem_slab_create() to indicate that
copy_to_iter() is permitted from the packet region of the smbd_response
slab objects, less the header space.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-09-29 07:47:59 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:16904 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16904