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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated May 12, 2026

CVE-2024-26993

CVE-2024-26993

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection()

The sysfs_break_active_protection() routine has an obvious reference leak in its error path. If the call to kernfs_find_and_get() fails then kn will be NULL, so the companion sysfs_unbreak_active_protection() routine won't get called (and would only cause an access violation by trying to dereference kn->parent if it was called). As a result, the reference to kobj acquired at the start of the function will never be released.

Fix the leak by adding an explicit kobject_put() call when kn is NULL.

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