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cifs: fix oops during encryption

Published Sep 16, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.15 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-6.5 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.15 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.11 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-6.5 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.11 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-6.5 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.15 Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-intel-iotg Package: linux-intel-iotg-5.15 Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5 Package: linux-lts-xenial Package: linux-nvidia Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-nvidia-6.5 Package: linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oem-6.11 Package: linux-oem-6.5 Package: linux-oem-6.8 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.15 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-oracle-6.5 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.15 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-riscv-6.5 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-starfive-6.5 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: fix oops during encryption

When running xfstests against Azure the following oops occurred on an
arm64 system

Unable to handle kernel write to read-only memory at virtual address
ffff0001221cf000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x9600004f
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x0f: level 3 permission fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x0000004f
CM = 0, WnR = 1
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000294f3000
[ffff0001221cf000] pgd=18000001ffff8003, p4d=18000001ffff8003,
pud=18000001ff82e003, pmd=18000001ff71d003, pte=00600001221cf787
Internal error: Oops: 9600004f [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
pc : __memcpy+0x40/0x230
lr : scatterwalk_copychunks+0xe0/0x200
sp : ffff800014e92de0
x29: ffff800014e92de0 x28: ffff000114f9de80 x27: 0000000000000008
x26: 0000000000000008 x25: ffff800014e92e78 x24: 0000000000000008
x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000040000000000 x21: ffff000000000000
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0001037c4488 x18: 0000000000000014
x17: 235e1c0d6efa9661 x16: a435f9576b6edd6c x15: 0000000000000058
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000008 x12: ffff000114f2e590
x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: 0000040000000000 x9 : ffff8000105c3580
x8 : 2e9413b10000001a x7 : 534b4410fb86b005 x6 : 534b4410fb86b005
x5 : ffff0001221cf008 x4 : ffff0001037c4490 x3 : 0000000000000001
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : ffff0001037c4488 x0 : ffff0001221cf000
Call trace:
__memcpy+0x40/0x230
scatterwalk_map_and_copy+0x98/0x100
crypto_ccm_encrypt+0x150/0x180
crypto_aead_encrypt+0x2c/0x40
crypt_message+0x750/0x880
smb3_init_transform_rq+0x298/0x340
smb_send_rqst.part.11+0xd8/0x180
smb_send_rqst+0x3c/0x100
compound_send_recv+0x534/0xbc0
smb2_query_info_compound+0x32c/0x440
smb2_set_ea+0x438/0x4c0
cifs_xattr_set+0x5d4/0x7c0

This is because in scatterwalk_copychunks(), we attempted to write to
a buffer (@sign) that was allocated in the stack (vmalloc area) by
crypt_message() and thus accessing its remaining 8 (x2) bytes ended up
crossing a page boundary.

To simply fix it, we could just pass @sign kmalloc'd from
crypt_message() and then we're done. Luckily, we don't seem to pass
any other vmalloc'd buffers in smb_rqst::rq_iov...

Instead, let's map the correct pages and offsets from vmalloc buffers
as well in cifs_sg_set_buf() and then avoiding such oopses.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 4.11 5.4.229

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.1.4-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.1.4-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1015.17 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-intel +9 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-69.76 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1033.37 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1035.42 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1035.42.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1031.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1030.35 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1017.22 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1027.30 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1027.32 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1023.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1032.38 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1026.28 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-144.161 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1097.105 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1033.37~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1104.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1035.42~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1059.65 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1101.110 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1031.38~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-69.76~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1045.50 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1027.32~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1013.15 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1087.93 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15 5.15.0-1014.14~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1094.103 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1032.38~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1081.92 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1030.34~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.4.0-1022.26 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1097.105~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1104.110~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1101.110~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-144.161~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1045.50~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1094.103~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1081.92~18.04.1 —
Show 11 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1023.28 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1034.37 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1099.107+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1104.110+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1073.82 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1101.110+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux-aws +2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.2.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 9 rv +64 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3 RHSA-2023:6583
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10 RHSA-2024:8856
Show 12 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Rhel Extras Rt Els 7 kernel-rt +7 3.10.0-1160.143.1.rt56.1295.el7 RHSA-2025:22914
RHEL 9.2 EUS bpftool 7.0.0-284.95.1.el9_2 RHSA-2024:10772
RHEL 9.2 EUS perf +48 5.14.0-284.95.1.el9_2 RHSA-2024:10772
RHEL 9.0 E4S kernel-rt +12 5.14.0-70.155.1.rt21.227.el9_0 RHSA-2025:22087
RHEL 9.0 E4S perf +28 5.14.0-70.155.1.el9_0 RHSA-2025:22066
RHEL 8.8 TUS perf +17 4.18.0-477.120.1.el8_8 RHSA-2025:22072
RHEL 8.8 E4S perf +18 4.18.0-477.120.1.el8_8 RHSA-2025:22072
RHEL 8.6 TUS perf +17 4.18.0-372.170.1.el8_6 RHSA-2025:22006
RHEL 8.6 E4S perf +25 4.18.0-372.170.1.el8_6 RHSA-2025:22006
RHEL 8.6 AUS perf +17 4.18.0-372.170.1.el8_6 RHSA-2025:22006
RHEL 8.4 EUS Long Life perf +17 4.18.0-305.184.1.el8_4 RHSA-2026:1886
RHEL 8.4 AUS perf +17 4.18.0-305.184.1.el8_4 RHSA-2026:1886
RHEL 8.2 AUS perf +17 4.18.0-193.185.1.el8_2 RHSA-2026:2664
RHEL 7 ELS perf +18 3.10.0-1160.143.1.el7 RHSA-2025:22910

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 8 perf +24 4.18.0-553.27.1.el8_10 ALSA-2024:8856

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 7 perf +12 3.10.0-1160.119.1.0.15.el7 ELSA-2025-22910

Advisories 14

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