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Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49822): linux vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 8, 2025
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

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