[RFC PATCH v2 02/11] nvme-keyring: Add a missing key_put() call to nvme_tls_key_lookup()

Hannes Reinecke hare at suse.de
Tue Nov 3 23:45:11 PST 2026


On 11/3/26 4:02 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> Call key_put() before returning -EKEYREVOKED, as the reference count gets
> incremented by key_lookup().
> 
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # v6.12+
> Fixes: 5bc46b49c828 ("nvme-tcp: check for invalidated or revoked key")
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org>
> ---
>   drivers/nvme/common/keyring.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvme/common/keyring.c b/drivers/nvme/common/keyring.c
> index 32d16c53133b..87cb51e1f5a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvme/common/keyring.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvme/common/keyring.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct key *nvme_tls_key_lookup(key_serial_t key_id)
>   	}
>   	if (nvme_tls_psk_revoked(key)) {
>   		pr_err("key id %08x revoked\n", key_id);
> +		key_put(key);
>   		return ERR_PTR(-EKEYREVOKED);
>   	}
>   	return key;

Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare at kernel.org>

Cheers,

Hannes
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