Bug 2516592 (CVE-2026-72040) - CVE-2026-72040 kernel: ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()
Summary: CVE-2026-72040 kernel: ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72040
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 17:39 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:20:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipmi: fix refcount leak in i_ipmi_request()

When a caller provides a `supplied_recv` message to i_ipmi_request(),
the function increments the user's `nr_msgs` reference count. If an
error occurs later, the out_err cleanup path only frees the recv_msg
if the function allocated it itself (i.e., !supplied_recv). In the
supplied_recv case the cleanup is skipped, leaving the reference count
elevated. The caller ipmi_request_supply_msgs() does not release the
supplied_recv on error, so the reference is permanently leaked.

Fix this by explicitly reverting the reference count operations when a
supplied recv_msg with a valid user pointer is present in the error
path: decrement nr_msgs and drop the user's kref.


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