In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sunrpc: fix potential memory leaks in rpcsysfsxprtstatechange() The issue happens on some error handling paths. When the function fails to grab the object xprt
, it simply returns 0, forgetting to decrease the reference count of another object xps
, which is increased by rpcsysfsxprtkobjgetxprtswitch(), causing refcount leaks. Also, the function forgets to check whether xps
is valid before using it, which may result in NULL-dereferencing issues. Fix it by adding proper error handling code when either xprt
or xps
is NULL.