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

devlink: Remove redundant free on error path

to the 4.15-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: devlink-remove-redundant-free-on-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 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 Mar 28 18:37:51 CEST 2018

From: Arkadi Sharshevsky arkadis@mellanox.com Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 17:37:22 +0200 Subject: devlink: Remove redundant free on error path

From: Arkadi Sharshevsky arkadis@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit 7fe4d6dcbcb43fe0282d4213fc52be178bb30e91 ]

The current code performs unneeded free. Remove the redundant skb freeing during the error path.

Fixes: 1555d204e743 ("devlink: Support for pipeline debug (dpipe)") Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky arkadis@mellanox.com Acked-by: Jiri Pirko jiri@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/devlink.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/devlink.c +++ b/net/core/devlink.c @@ -1776,7 +1776,7 @@ send_done: if (!nlh) { err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, info); if (err) - goto err_skb_send_alloc; + return err; goto send_done; }

@@ -1785,7 +1785,6 @@ send_done: nla_put_failure: err = -EMSGSIZE; err_table_put: -err_skb_send_alloc: genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr); nlmsg_free(skb); return err; @@ -2051,7 +2050,7 @@ static int devlink_dpipe_entries_fill(st table->counters_enabled, &dump_ctx); if (err) - goto err_entries_dump; + return err;

send_done: nlh = nlmsg_put(dump_ctx.skb, info->snd_portid, info->snd_seq, @@ -2059,16 +2058,10 @@ send_done: if (!nlh) { err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&dump_ctx.skb, info); if (err) - goto err_skb_send_alloc; + return err; goto send_done; } return genlmsg_reply(dump_ctx.skb, info); - -err_entries_dump: -err_skb_send_alloc: - genlmsg_cancel(dump_ctx.skb, dump_ctx.hdr); - nlmsg_free(dump_ctx.skb); - return err; }

static int devlink_nl_cmd_dpipe_entries_get(struct sk_buff *skb, @@ -2207,7 +2200,7 @@ send_done: if (!nlh) { err = devlink_dpipe_send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, info); if (err) - goto err_skb_send_alloc; + return err; goto send_done; } return genlmsg_reply(skb, info); @@ -2215,7 +2208,6 @@ send_done: nla_put_failure: err = -EMSGSIZE; err_table_put: -err_skb_send_alloc: genlmsg_cancel(skb, hdr); nlmsg_free(skb); return err;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arkadis@mellanox.com are

queue-4.15/devlink-remove-redundant-free-on-error-path.patch queue-4.15/team-fix-double-free-in-error-path.patch