Resource Leak Affecting kernel-core package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

net/sunrpc: fix reference count leaks in rpc_sysfs_xprt_state_change

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".

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-47624
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b22aa42bd4d2d630ef1854c139275c3532937cb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f6024c05a2c0fdd180b29395aaf686d25af3a0f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/776d794f28c95051bc70405a7b1fa40115658a18