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Wentao Liang 9409e18ffe ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()
[ Upstream commit a3f3859cec ]

When a caller provides a `supplied_recv` message to i_ipmi_request(),
the function increments the user's `nr_msgs` reference count. If an
error occurs later, the out_err cleanup path only frees the recv_msg
if the function allocated it itself (i.e., !supplied_recv). In the
supplied_recv case the cleanup is skipped, leaving the reference count
elevated. The caller ipmi_request_supply_msgs() does not release the
supplied_recv on error, so the reference is permanently leaked.

Fix this by explicitly reverting the reference count operations when a
supplied recv_msg with a valid user pointer is present in the error
path: decrement nr_msgs and drop the user's kref.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b52da4054e ("ipmi: Rework user message limit handling")
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Message-ID: <20260603120634.3758747-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
[ changed `free_ipmi_user` to `free_user` in the two added `kref_put()` calls ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-08-03 11:15:39 +02:00
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