Patch "selftests/bpf: Remove memory leak" has been added to the 5.11-stable tree

[Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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

    selftests/bpf: Remove memory leak

to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     selftests-bpf-remove-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.



commit 63895af3aa586ec4dc39318bb5c487aea6e28e00
Author: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Jan 22 16:47:17 2021 +0100

    selftests/bpf: Remove memory leak
    
    [ Upstream commit 4896d7e37ea5217d42e210bfcf4d56964044704f ]
    
    The allocated entry is immediately overwritten by an assignment. Fix
    that.
    
    Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210122154725.22140-5-bjorn.topel@xxxxxxxxx
    Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdpxceiver.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdpxceiver.c
index 1e722ee76b1f..e7945b6246c8 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdpxceiver.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdpxceiver.c
@@ -729,7 +729,6 @@ static void worker_pkt_validate(void)
 	u32 payloadseqnum = -2;
 
 	while (1) {
-		pkt_node_rx_q = malloc(sizeof(struct pkt));
 		pkt_node_rx_q = TAILQ_LAST(&head, head_s);
 		if (!pkt_node_rx_q)
 			break;