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

macsec: fix memory leaks when skb_to_sgvec fails

to the 4.13-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: macsec-fix-memory-leaks-when-skb_to_sgvec-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 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 Nov 15 17:25:34 CET 2017

From: Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 17:07:12 +0200 Subject: macsec: fix memory leaks when skb_to_sgvec fails

From: Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net

[ Upstream commit 5aba2ba5030b66a6f8c93049b718556f9aacd7c6 ]

Fixes: cda7ea690350 ("macsec: check return value of skb_to_sgvec always") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca sd@queasysnail.net Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/macsec.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/macsec.c +++ b/drivers/net/macsec.c @@ -742,6 +742,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *macsec_encrypt(st sg_init_table(sg, ret); ret = skb_to_sgvec(skb, sg, 0, skb->len); if (unlikely(ret < 0)) { + aead_request_free(req); macsec_txsa_put(tx_sa); kfree_skb(skb); return ERR_PTR(ret); @@ -954,6 +955,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *macsec_decrypt(st sg_init_table(sg, ret); ret = skb_to_sgvec(skb, sg, 0, skb->len); if (unlikely(ret < 0)) { + aead_request_free(req); kfree_skb(skb); return ERR_PTR(ret); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sd@queasysnail.net are

queue-4.13/macsec-fix-memory-leaks-when-skb_to_sgvec-fails.patch