[PATCH 7.1 0032/2077] rxrpc: Fix leak of connection from OOB challenge

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jul 21 07:55:05 PDT 2026


7.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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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;
 }





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