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

tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

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-fix-memory-leak-in-tipc_accept_from_sock.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 Thu Dec 14 11:45:58 CET 2017

From: Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 22:00:20 +0100 Subject: tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

From: Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com

[ Upstream commit a7d5f107b4978e08eeab599ee7449af34d034053 ]

When the function tipc_accept_from_sock() fails to create an instance of struct tipc_subscriber it omits to free the already created instance of struct tipc_conn instance before it returns.

We fix that with this commit.

Reported-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/tipc/server.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/tipc/server.c +++ b/net/tipc/server.c @@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ static int tipc_accept_from_sock(struct newcon->usr_data = s->tipc_conn_new(newcon->conid); if (!newcon->usr_data) { sock_release(newsock); + conn_put(newcon); return -ENOMEM; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jon.maloy@ericsson.com are

queue-4.9/tipc-call-tipc_rcv-only-if-bearer-is-up-in-tipc_udp_recv.patch queue-4.9/tipc-fix-memory-leak-in-tipc_accept_from_sock.patch