kernel/linux.git/fs/smb/server/smb_common.c, branch linux-7.0.y

ksmbd: add procfs interface for runtime monitoring and statistics

2026-02-09T02:25:16+00:00

This patch introduces a /proc filesystem interface to ksmbd, providing visibility into the internal state of the SMB server. This allows administrators and developers to monitor active connections, user sessions, and opened files in real-time without relying on external tools or heavy debugging. Key changes include: - Connection Monitoring (/proc/fs/ksmbd/clients): Displays a list of active network connections, including client IP addresses, SMB dialects, credits, and last active timestamps. - Session Management (/proc/fs/ksmbd/sessions/): Adds a global sessions file to list all authenticated users and their session IDs. - Creates individual session entries (e.g., /proc/fs/ksmbd/sessions/) detailing capabilities (DFS, Multi-channel, etc.), signing/encryption algorithms, and connected tree shares. - File Tracking (/proc/fs/ksmbd/files): Shows all currently opened files across the server, including tree IDs, process IDs (PID), access modes (daccess/saccess), and oplock/lease states. - Statistics & Counters: Implements internal counters for global server metrics, such as the number of tree connections, total sessions, and processed read/write bytes. Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee Signed-off-by: Bahubali B Gumaji Signed-off-by: Sang-Soo Lee Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: rename smb2_get_msg to smb_get_msg

2025-12-22T01:20:46+00:00

With the removal of the RFC1002 length field from the SMB header, smb2_get_msg is now used to get the smb1 request from the request buffer. Since this function is no longer exclusive to smb2 and now supports smb1 as well, This patch rename it to smb_get_msg to better reflect its usage. Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

ksmbd: Fix to handle removal of rfc1002 header from smb_hdr

2025-12-22T01:20:46+00:00

The commit that removed the RFC1002 header from struct smb_hdr didn't also fix the places in ksmbd that use it in order to provide graceful rejection of SMB1 protocol requests. Fixes: 83bfbd0bb902 ("cifs: Remove the RFC1002 header from smb_hdr") Reported-by: Namjae Jeon Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAKYAXd9Ju4MFkkH5Jxfi1mO0AWEr=R35M3vQ_Xa7Yw34JoNZ0A@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: ChenXiaoSong Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

smb: server: Fix extension string in ksmbd_extract_shortname()

2025-08-07T23:23:12+00:00

In ksmbd_extract_shortname(), strscpy() is incorrectly called with the length of the source string (excluding the NUL terminator) rather than the size of the destination buffer. This results in "__" being copied to 'extension' rather than "___" (two underscores instead of three). Use the destination buffer size instead to ensure that the string "___" (three underscores) is copied correctly. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e2f34481b24d ("cifsd: add server-side procedures for SMB3") Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Acked-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

Merge tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2025-01-20T18:13:06+00:00

Pull cred refcount updates from Christian Brauner: "For the v6.13 cycle we switched overlayfs to a variant of override_creds() that doesn't take an extra reference. To this end the {override,revert}_creds_light() helpers were introduced. This generalizes the idea behind {override,revert}_creds_light() to the {override,revert}_creds() helpers. Afterwards overriding and reverting credentials is reference count free unless the caller explicitly takes a reference. All callers have been appropriately ported" * tag 'kernel-6.14-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (30 commits) cred: fold get_new_cred_many() into get_cred_many() cred: remove unused get_new_cred() nfsd: avoid pointless cred reference count bump cachefiles: avoid pointless cred reference count bump dns_resolver: avoid pointless cred reference count bump trace: avoid pointless cred reference count bump cgroup: avoid pointless cred reference count bump acct: avoid pointless reference count bump io_uring: avoid pointless cred reference count bump smb: avoid pointless cred reference count bump cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump cifs: avoid pointless cred reference count bump ovl: avoid pointless cred reference count bump open: avoid pointless cred reference count bump nfsfh: avoid pointless cred reference count bump nfs/nfs4recover: avoid pointless cred reference count bump nfs/nfs4idmap: avoid pointless reference count bump nfs/localio: avoid pointless cred reference count bumps coredump: avoid pointless cred reference count bump binfmt_misc: avoid pointless cred reference count bump ...

smb: avoid pointless cred reference count bump

2024-12-02T10:25:13+00:00

The creds are allocated via prepare_kernel_cred() which has already taken a reference. This also removes a pointless check that gives the impression that override_creds() can ever be called on a task with current->cred NULL. That's not possible afaict. Remove the check to not imply that there can be a dangling pointer in current->cred. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-21-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

tree-wide: s/revert_creds_light()/revert_creds()/g

2024-12-02T10:25:09+00:00

Rename all calls to revert_creds_light() back to revert_creds(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-6-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

tree-wide: s/override_creds_light()/override_creds()/g

2024-12-02T10:25:09+00:00

Rename all calls to override_creds_light() back to overrid_creds(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-5-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

tree-wide: s/revert_creds()/put_cred(revert_creds_light())/g

2024-12-02T10:25:09+00:00

Convert all calls to revert_creds() over to explicitly dropping reference counts in preparation for converting revert_creds() to revert_creds_light() semantics. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-3-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

tree-wide: s/override_creds()/override_creds_light(get_new_cred())/g

2024-12-02T10:25:08+00:00

Convert all callers from override_creds() to override_creds_light(get_new_cred()) in preparation of making override_creds() not take a separate reference at all. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-1-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner