[PATCH 6.19 74/86] rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T16:06:15Z

From: Douya Le <ldy3087146292@gmail.com>

commit 6331f1b24a3e85465f6454e003a3e6c22005a5c5 upstream.

rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn() can process a to-client packet after the
current client call on the channel has already been torn down. In that
case chan->call is NULL, rxrpc_try_get_call() returns NULL and there is
no reference to drop.

The client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and
unconditionally calls rxrpc_put_call(). This turns a protocol error
path into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet.

Only drop the call reference if one was actually acquired. Keep the
existing protocol error handling unchanged.

Fixes: 5e6ef4f1017c ("rxrpc: Make the I/O thread take over the call and local processor work")
Reported-by: Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Douya Le <ldy3087146292@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan98@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan98@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Ao Zhou <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260408121252.2249051-11-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/rxrpc/io_thread.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/io_thread.c
@@ -419,7 +419,8 @@ static int rxrpc_input_packet_on_conn(st

if (sp->hdr.callNumber > chan->call_id) {
if (rxrpc_to_client(sp)) {
- rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put_input);
+ if (call)
+ rxrpc_put_call(call, rxrpc_call_put_input);
return rxrpc_protocol_error(skb,
rxrpc_eproto_unexpected_implicit_end);
}