This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/sunrpc: fix reference count leaks in rpc_sysfs_xprt_state_change to the 5.16-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: net-sunrpc-fix-reference-count-leaks-in-rpc_sysfs_xp.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d8da015bc9a1c88d2462226a0e61936072eceed8 Author: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 9 12:32:38 2021 +0800 net/sunrpc: fix reference count leaks in rpc_sysfs_xprt_state_change [ Upstream commit 776d794f28c95051bc70405a7b1fa40115658a18 ] The refcount leak issues take place in an error handling path. When the 3rd argument buf doesn't match with "offline", "online" or "remove", the function simply returns -EINVAL and forgets to decrease the reference count of a rpc_xprt object and a rpc_xprt_switch object increased by rpc_sysfs_xprt_kobj_get_xprt() and rpc_sysfs_xprt_kobj_get_xprt_switch(), causing reference count leaks of both unused objects. Fix this issue by jumping to the error handling path labelled with out_put when buf matches none of "offline", "online" or "remove". Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xin Xiong <xiongx18@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sysfs.c b/net/sunrpc/sysfs.c index 2766dd21935b8..77e7d011c1ab1 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/sysfs.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sysfs.c @@ -295,8 +295,10 @@ static ssize_t rpc_sysfs_xprt_state_change(struct kobject *kobj, online = 1; else if (!strncmp(buf, "remove", 6)) remove = 1; - else - return -EINVAL; + else { + count = -EINVAL; + goto out_put; + } if (wait_on_bit_lock(&xprt->state, XPRT_LOCKED, TASK_KILLABLE)) { count = -EINTR;