This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx4_core: Fix memory leak while delete slave's resources
to the 4.9-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-mlx4_core-fix-memory-leak-while-delete-slave-s-resources.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed Apr 11 10:26:56 CEST 2018
From: Moshe Shemesh moshe@mellanox.com Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:41:19 +0300 Subject: net/mlx4_core: Fix memory leak while delete slave's resources
From: Moshe Shemesh moshe@mellanox.com
[ Upstream commit 461d5f1b59490ce0096dfda45e10038c122a7892 ]
mlx4_delete_all_resources_for_slave in resource tracker should free all memory allocated for a slave. While releasing memory of fs_rule, it misses releasing memory of fs_rule->mirr_mbox.
Fixes: 78efed275117 ('net/mlx4_core: Support mirroring VF DMFS rules on both ports') Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh moshe@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan tariqt@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/resource_tracker.c @@ -5048,6 +5048,7 @@ static void rem_slave_fs_rule(struct mlx &tracker->res_tree[RES_FS_RULE]); list_del(&fs_rule->com.list); spin_unlock_irq(mlx4_tlock(dev)); + kfree(fs_rule->mirr_mbox); kfree(fs_rule); state = 0; break;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from moshe@mellanox.com are
queue-4.9/net-mlx4_core-fix-memory-leak-while-delete-slave-s-resources.patch