This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

tipc: error path leak fixes in tipc_enable_bearer()

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: tipc-error-path-leak-fixes-in-tipc_enable_bearer.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 Feb 28 16:13:29 CET 2018

From: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:35:16 +0200 Subject: tipc: error path leak fixes in tipc_enable_bearer()

From: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com

[ Upstream commit 19142551b2be4a9e13838099fde1351386e5e007 ]

Fix memory leak in tipc_enable_bearer() if enable_media() fails, and cleanup with bearer_disable() if tipc_mon_create() fails.

Acked-by: Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com Acked-by: Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/tipc/bearer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/tipc/bearer.c +++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c @@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ restart: if (res) { pr_warn("Bearer <%s> rejected, enable failure (%d)\n", name, -res); + kfree(b); return -EINVAL; }

@@ -345,8 +346,10 @@ restart: if (skb) tipc_bearer_xmit_skb(net, bearer_id, skb, &b->bcast_addr);

- if (tipc_mon_create(net, bearer_id)) + if (tipc_mon_create(net, bearer_id)) { + bearer_disable(net, b); return -ENOMEM; + }

pr_info("Enabled bearer <%s>, discovery domain %s, priority %u\n", name,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com are

queue-4.9/tipc-error-path-leak-fixes-in-tipc_enable_bearer.patch queue-4.9/tipc-fix-tipc_mon_delete-oops-in-tipc_enable_bearer-error-path.patch