The issue takes place in one error path of clusterip_tg_check(). When memcmp() returns nonzero, the function simply returns the error code, forgetting to decrease the reference count of a clusterip_config object, which is bumped earlier by clusterip_config_find_get(). This may incur reference count leak. Fix this issue by decrementing the refcount of the object in specific error path. Signed-off-by: Xin Xiong <xiongx18@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c index 8fd1aba8a..b518f20c9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c @@ -520,8 +520,11 @@ static int clusterip_tg_check(const struct xt_tgchk_param *par) if (IS_ERR(config)) return PTR_ERR(config); } - } else if (memcmp(&config->clustermac, &cipinfo->clustermac, ETH_ALEN)) + } else if (memcmp(&config->clustermac, &cipinfo->clustermac, ETH_ALEN)) { + clusterip_config_entry_put(config); + clusterip_config_put(config); return -EINVAL; + } ret = nf_ct_netns_get(par->net, par->family); if (ret < 0) { -- 2.25.1