Patch "rxrpc: Fix leak of connection from OOB challenge" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

[gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rxrpc: Fix leak of connection from OOB challenge

to the 6.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rxrpc-fix-leak-of-connection-from-oob-challenge.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4b28876e78fd60979afa91fd2ec6ad9cc8b7a6d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:38:09 +0100
Subject: rxrpc: Fix leak of connection from OOB challenge

From: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>

commit 4b28876e78fd60979afa91fd2ec6ad9cc8b7a6d0 upstream.

Fix leak of connection object from OOB challenge queue when response is
provided by userspace.

Fixes: 5800b1cf3fd8 ("rxrpc: Allow CHALLENGEs to the passed to the app for a RESPONSE")
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260609140911.838677-1-dhowells%40redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms at kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
cc: stable at kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624163819.3017002-3-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/rxrpc/oob.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/net/rxrpc/oob.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/oob.c
@@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ static int rxrpc_respond_to_oob(struct r
 		break;
 	}
 
+	switch (skb->mark) {
+	case RXRPC_OOB_CHALLENGE:
+		rxrpc_put_connection(sp->chall.conn, rxrpc_conn_put_oob);
+		break;
+	}
 	rxrpc_free_skb(skb, rxrpc_skb_put_oob);
 	return ret;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells at redhat.com are

queue-6.18/rxrpc-don-t-move-a-peeked-oob-message-onto-the-pending-queue.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-potential-infinite-loop-in-rxrpc_recvmsg.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-rxrpc_verify_data-ensure-rx_dec_buffer-alloc.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-further-netns-teardown-to-cancel-the-preallocation-charger.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-netns-teardown-to-cancel-the-preallocation-charger.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-ackall-packet-handling.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-leak-of-connection-from-oob-challenge.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-oob-challenge-leak-in-cleanup-after-notification-failure.patch
queue-6.18/afs-handle-cb.initcallbackstate3-requests-without-a-server-record.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-socket-notification-race.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-rxrpc_rotate_tx_rotate-to-check-there-s-something-to-rotate.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-leak-of-released-call-in-recvmsg-msg_peek.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-serialize-kernel-accept-preallocation-with-socket-teardown.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-null-pointer-dereference-in-afs_get_tree.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-the-reception-of-a-reply-packet-before-data-transmission.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-double-unlock-in-rxrpc_recvmsg.patch
queue-6.18/afs-fix-uncancelled-rxrpc-oob-message-handler.patch
queue-6.18/rxrpc-fix-uaf-in-rxgk_issue_challenge.patch