In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Only put the call ref if one was acquired
rxrpcinputpacketonconn() can process a to-client packet after the current client call on the channel has already been torn down. In that case chan->call is NULL, rxrpctryget_call() returns NULL and there is no reference to drop.
The client-side implicit-end error path does not account for that and unconditionally calls rxrpcputcall(). This turns a protocol error path into a kernel crash instead of rejecting the packet.
Only drop the call reference if one was actually acquired. Keep the existing protocol error handling unchanged.
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