CVE-2026-68130

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An authenticated attacker can\nset the NTLM blob username to match a victim account and set\nPreviousSessionId to the victim's session ID; destroy_previous_session()\ndestroys the victim's session while ksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob()\nsubsequently rejects the request with -EPERM.\n\nMove destroy_previous_session() and the prev_id assignment to after\nksmbd_decode_ntlmssp_auth_blob() returns success and use sess->user\nrather than the pre-authentication lookup result. 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