In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: server: fix leak of activenumconn in ksmbdtcpnew_connection()
On kthreadrun() failure in ksmbdtcpnewconnection(), the transport is freed via freetransport(), which does not decrement activenum_conn, leaking this counter.
Replace freetransport() with ksmbdtcp_disconnect().
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