ksmbd: fix memory leak in parse_lease_state()
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: fix memory leak in parse_lease_state() The previous patch that added bounds check for create lease context introduced a memory leak. When the bounds check fails, the function returns NULL without freeing the previously allocated lease_ctx_info structure. This patch fixes the issue by adding kfree(lreq) before returning NULL in both boundary check cases.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/facf22c1a394c1e023dab5daf9a494f722771e1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af9e2d4732a548db8f6f5a90c2c20a789a3d7240
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2148d34371b06dac696c0497a98a6bf905a51650
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/829e19ef741d9e9932abdc3bee5466195e0852cf
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb4447bcce915b43b691123118893fca4f372a8f
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