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CVE-2024-42307

cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cifs: fix potential null pointer use in destroy_workqueue in init_cifs error path Dan Carpenter reported a Smack static checker warning: fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c:1981 init_cifs() error: we previously assumed 'serverclose_wq' could be null (see line 1895) The patch which introduced the serverclose workqueue used the wrong oredering in error paths in init_cifs() for freeing it on errors.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 8c99dfb49bdc17edffc7ff3d46b400c8c291686c before 6018971710fdc7739f8655c1540832b4bb903671; affected 6f17163b9339fac92023a1d9bef22128db3b9a4b before 160235efb4f9b55212dedff5de0094c606c4b303; affected 173217bd73365867378b5e75a86f0049e1069ee8 before 3739d711246d8fbc95ff73dbdace9741cdce4777; affected 173217bd73365867378b5e75a86f0049e1069ee8 before 193cc89ea0ca1da311877d2b4bb5e9f03bcc82a2; affected 40a5d14c9d3b585d55d3209fb5efe202dcaac926; affected 6.1.85 before 6.1.103; affected 6.6.26 before 6.6.44; affected 6.8.5 before 6.9
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.9; unaffected 0 before 6.9; unaffected 6.1.103 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.44 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.10.3 through 6.10.*; unaffected 6.11 through *

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