[PATCH net 1/4] afs: Fix NULL deref in afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3()

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 07:49:15 PDT 2026


Fix afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3() to avoid a potential NULL deref
should call->server be NULL (ie. afs_rx_new_call() failed to find a
matching server record) when it checks the server's UUID.

Fixes: 40e8b52fe8c8 ("afs: Use the per-peer app data provided by rxrpc")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260624163819.3017002-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni at redhat.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
---
 fs/afs/cmservice.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/cmservice.c b/fs/afs/cmservice.c
index 5540ae1cad59..d579a665e3da 100644
--- a/fs/afs/cmservice.c
+++ b/fs/afs/cmservice.c
@@ -364,7 +364,8 @@ static int afs_deliver_cb_init_call_back_state3(struct afs_call *call)
 	if (!afs_check_call_state(call, AFS_CALL_SV_REPLYING))
 		return afs_io_error(call, afs_io_error_cm_reply);
 
-	if (memcmp(call->request, &call->server->_uuid, sizeof(call->server->_uuid)) != 0) {
+	if (call->server &&
+	    memcmp(call->request, &call->server->_uuid, sizeof(call->server->_uuid)) != 0) {
 		pr_notice("Callback UUID does not match fileserver UUID\n");
 		trace_afs_cm_no_server_u(call, call->request);
 		return 0;




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