CVE-2024-42256

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: Fix server re-repick on subrequest retry When a subrequest is marked for needing retry, netfs will call cifs_prepare_write() which will make cifs repick the server for the op before renegotiating credits; it then calls cifs_issue_write() which invokes smb2_async_writev() - which re-repicks the server. If a different server is then selected, this causes the increment of server->in_flight to happen against one record and the decrement to happen against another, leading to misaccounting. Fix this by just removing the repick code in smb2_async_writev(). As this is only called from netfslib-driven code, cifs_prepare_write() should always have been called first, and so server should never be NULL and the preparatory step is repeated in the event that we do a retry. The problem manifests as a warning looking something like: WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 72896 at fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c:97 smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs] ... RIP: 0010:smb2_add_credits+0x3f0/0x9e0 [cifs] ... smb2_writev_callback+0x334/0x560 [cifs] cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x77a/0x11b0 [cifs] kthread+0x187/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x34/0x60 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 Which may be triggered by a number of different xfstests running against an Azure server in multichannel mode. generic/249 seems the most repeatable, but generic/215, generic/249 and generic/308 may also show it.

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-42256 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-42256.

URL	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1d0a566769b6fb3795b5289fc1daf9e0638d97a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de40579b903883274fe203865f29d66b168b7236
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024080820-CVE-2024-42256-afbb@gregkh/T
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42256
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42256