CVE-2026-64141

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The matching opinfo, however,\nstays linked in its per-ClientGuid lease_table_list entry's lb->lease_list\nbecause destroy_lease_table() only runs on full TCP-connection teardown,\nnot on SESSION_LOGOFF.\n\nIf the same TCP connection then negotiates a fresh session with the\nsame ClientGuid (ClientGuid is bound to NEGOTIATE, not the session, and\nis unchanged across LOGOFF + SETUP) and issues a SMB2 CREATE with a\nlease context on a different inode, find_same_lease_key() walks\nlb->lease_list, reaches the stale opinfo, and calls compare_guid_key(),\nwhich unconditionally dereferences opinfo->conn->ClientGUID. The conn\npointer is NULL and the kernel panics.\n\nReproducer requires only a successful SMB2 SESSION_SETUP and a share\nconfigured with 'durable handles = yes'. 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The matching opinfo, however,\nstays linked in its per-ClientGuid lease_table_list entry's lb->lease_list\nbecause destroy_lease_table() only runs on full TCP-connection teardown,\nnot on SESSION_LOGOFF.\n\nIf the same TCP connection then negotiates a fresh session with the\nsame ClientGuid (ClientGuid is bound to NEGOTIATE, not the session, and\nis unchanged across LOGOFF + SETUP) and issues a SMB2 CREATE with a\nlease context on a different inode, find_same_lease_key() walks\nlb->lease_list, reaches the stale opinfo, and calls compare_guid_key(),\nwhich unconditionally dereferences opinfo->conn->ClientGUID. The conn\npointer is NULL and the kernel panics.\n\nReproducer requires only a successful SMB2 SESSION_SETUP and a share\nconfigured with 'durable handles = yes'. 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