CVE-2022-49822

cifs: Fix connections leak when tlink setup failed

published May 1, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
9.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cifs: Fix connections leak when tlink setup failed

If the tlink setup failed, lost to put the connections, then

the module refcnt leak since the cifsd kthread not exit.

Also leak the fscache info, and for next mount with fsc, it will

print the follow errors:

CIFS: Cache volume key already in use (cifs,127.0.0.1:445,TEST)

Let's check the result of tlink setup, and do some cleanup.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00203 · 9.8th percentile
Published
2025-05-01T14:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 MAY 14:09Z
    cifs: Fix connections leak when tlink setup failed
    cvelistv5