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

tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()

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-a-memory-leak-in-tipc_nl_node_get_link.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 Sun Jan 28 17:37:09 CET 2018

From: Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:50:25 -0800 Subject: tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()

From: Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 59b36613e85fb16ebf9feaf914570879cd5c2a21 ]

When tipc_node_find_by_name() fails, the nlmsg is not freed.

While on it, switch to a goto label to properly free it.

Fixes: be9c086715c ("tipc: narrow down exposure of struct tipc_node") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com Cc: Jon Maloy jon.maloy@ericsson.com Cc: Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Cong Wang xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com Acked-by: Ying Xue ying.xue@windriver.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/tipc/node.c | 26 ++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/tipc/node.c +++ b/net/tipc/node.c @@ -1848,36 +1848,38 @@ int tipc_nl_node_get_link(struct sk_buff

if (strcmp(name, tipc_bclink_name) == 0) { err = tipc_nl_add_bc_link(net, &msg); - if (err) { - nlmsg_free(msg.skb); - return err; - } + if (err) + goto err_free; } else { int bearer_id; struct tipc_node *node; struct tipc_link *link;

node = tipc_node_find_by_name(net, name, &bearer_id); - if (!node) - return -EINVAL; + if (!node) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_free; + }

tipc_node_read_lock(node); link = node->links[bearer_id].link; if (!link) { tipc_node_read_unlock(node); - nlmsg_free(msg.skb); - return -EINVAL; + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_free; }

err = __tipc_nl_add_link(net, &msg, link, 0); tipc_node_read_unlock(node); - if (err) { - nlmsg_free(msg.skb); - return err; - } + if (err) + goto err_free; }

return genlmsg_reply(msg.skb, info); + +err_free: + nlmsg_free(msg.skb); + return err; }

int tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/tipc-fix-a-memory-leak-in-tipc_nl_node_get_link.patch queue-4.9/tun-fix-a-memory-leak-for-tfile-tx_array.patch