From: Daniel Hodges Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2026 20:41:46 +0000 (-0500) Subject: SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd2fdc3504592d85e549c523b054898a036a6afe;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path Commit 5940d1cf9f42 ("SUNRPC: Rebalance a kref in auth_gss.c") added a kref_get(&gss_auth->kref) call to balance the gss_put_auth() done in gss_release_msg(), but forgot to add a corresponding kref_put() on the error path when kstrdup_const() fails. If service_name is non-NULL and kstrdup_const() fails, the function jumps to err_put_pipe_version which calls put_pipe_version() and kfree(gss_msg), but never releases the gss_auth reference. This leads to a kref leak where the gss_auth structure is never freed. Add a forward declaration for gss_free_callback() and call kref_put() in the err_put_pipe_version error path to properly release the reference taken earlier. Fixes: 5940d1cf9f42 ("SUNRPC: Rebalance a kref in auth_gss.c") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Hodges Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker --- diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c index 5c095cb8cb201..bb3c3db2713b1 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c @@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ static const struct rpc_authops authgss_ops; static const struct rpc_credops gss_credops; static const struct rpc_credops gss_nullops; +static void gss_free_callback(struct kref *kref); + #define GSS_RETRY_EXPIRED 5 static unsigned int gss_expired_cred_retry_delay = GSS_RETRY_EXPIRED; @@ -551,6 +553,7 @@ gss_alloc_msg(struct gss_auth *gss_auth, } return gss_msg; err_put_pipe_version: + kref_put(&gss_auth->kref, gss_free_callback); put_pipe_version(gss_auth->net); err_free_msg: kfree(gss_msg);