Bug 2395266 (CVE-2023-53230)

Summary: CVE-2023-53230 kernel: smb: client: fix warning in cifs_smb3_do_mount()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-15 15:04:18 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: fix warning in cifs_smb3_do_mount()

This fixes the following warning reported by kernel test robot

  fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:982 cifs_smb3_do_mount() warn: possible
  memory leak of 'cifs_sb'