This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
rds: memory leak in __rds_conn_create()
to the 5.15-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:
rds-memory-leak-in-__rds_conn_create.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e35a9d8d8574caa252ac982b363573552b1089b9
Author: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 14 18:46:59 2021 +0800
rds: memory leak in __rds_conn_create()
[ Upstream commit 5f9562ebe710c307adc5f666bf1a2162ee7977c0 ]
__rds_conn_create() did not release conn->c_path when loop_trans != 0 and
trans->t_prefer_loopback != 0 and is_outgoing == 0.
Fixes: aced3ce57cd3 ("RDS tcp loopback connection can hang")
Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Sharath Srinivasan <sharath.srinivasan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/rds/connection.c b/net/rds/connection.c
index a3bc4b54d4910..b4cc699c5fad3 100644
--- a/net/rds/connection.c
+++ b/net/rds/connection.c
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@ static struct rds_connection *__rds_conn_create(struct net *net,
* should end up here, but if it
* does, reset/destroy the connection.
*/
+ kfree(conn->c_path);
kmem_cache_free(rds_conn_slab, conn);
conn = ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
goto out;
