This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix leak on transmit failure
to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: net-qualcomm-rmnet-fix-leak-on-transmit-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Fri Feb 23 11:45:09 CET 2018
From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan subashab@codeaurora.org Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 13:41:17 -0700 Subject: net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix leak on transmit failure
From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan subashab@codeaurora.org
[ Upstream commit c20a548792f15f8d8e38cd74356301c6db0d241f ]
If a skb in transmit path does not have sufficient headroom to add the map header, the skb is not sent out and is never freed.
Fixes: ceed73a2cf4a ("drivers: net: ethernet: qualcomm: rmnet: Initial implementation") Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan subashab@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/rmnet/rmnet_handlers.c @@ -166,12 +166,12 @@ static int rmnet_map_egress_handler(stru
if (skb_headroom(skb) < required_headroom) { if (pskb_expand_head(skb, required_headroom, 0, GFP_KERNEL)) - return RMNET_MAP_CONSUMED; + goto fail; }
map_header = rmnet_map_add_map_header(skb, additional_header_len, 0); if (!map_header) - return RMNET_MAP_CONSUMED; + goto fail;
if (port->egress_data_format & RMNET_EGRESS_FORMAT_MUXING) { if (ep->mux_id == 0xff) @@ -183,6 +183,10 @@ static int rmnet_map_egress_handler(stru skb->protocol = htons(ETH_P_MAP);
return RMNET_MAP_SUCCESS; + +fail: + kfree_skb(skb); + return RMNET_MAP_CONSUMED; }
/* Ingress / Egress Entry Points */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from subashab@codeaurora.org are
queue-4.14/net-qualcomm-rmnet-fix-leak-on-transmit-failure.patch