CVE-2025-40090

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

ksmbd: fix recursive locking in RPC handle list access

Since commit 305853cce3794 (ksmbd: Fix race condition in RPC handle list access), ksmbd_session_rpc_method() attempts to lock sess->rpc_lock.

This causes hung connections / tasks when a client attempts to open a named pipe. Using Sambas rpcclient tool:

$ rpcclient //192.168.1.254 -U user%password $ rpcclient $> srvinfo

Kernel side: echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message. task:kworker/0:0 state:D stack:0 pid:5021 tgid:5021 ppid:2 flags:0x00200000 Workqueue: ksmbd-io handle_ksmbd_work Call trace: __schedule from schedule+0x3c/0x58 schedule from schedule_preempt_disabled+0xc/0x10 schedule_preempt_disabled from rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x1b0/0x1d8 rwsem_down_read_slowpath from down_read+0x28/0x30 down_read from ksmbd_session_rpc_method+0x18/0x3c ksmbd_session_rpc_method from ksmbd_rpc_open+0x34/0x68 ksmbd_rpc_open from ksmbd_session_rpc_open+0x194/0x228 ksmbd_session_rpc_open from create_smb2_pipe+0x8c/0x2c8 create_smb2_pipe from smb2_open+0x10c/0x27ac smb2_open from handle_ksmbd_work+0x238/0x3dc handle_ksmbd_work from process_scheduled_works+0x160/0x25c process_scheduled_works from worker_thread+0x16c/0x1e8 worker_thread from kthread+0xa8/0xb8 kthread from ret_from_fork+0x14/0x38 Exception stack(0x8529ffb0 to 0x8529fff8)

The task deadlocks because the lock is already held: ksmbd_session_rpc_open down_write(&sess->rpc_lock) ksmbd_rpc_open ksmbd_session_rpc_method down_read(&sess->rpc_lock) <– deadlock

Adjust ksmbd_session_rpc_method() callers to take the lock when necessary.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3412fbd81b46b9cfae013817b61d4bbd27e09e36
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4602b8cee1481dbb896182e5cb1e8cf12910e9e7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88f170814fea74911ceab798a43cbd7c5599bed4