This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/qla3xxx: fix potential memleak in ql3xxx_send() to the 4.9-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: net-qla3xxx-fix-potential-memleak-in-ql3xxx_send.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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 492108f39bd34e43d76bb2f65cff603fd1c5e7fd Author: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 17 16:50:38 2022 +0800 net/qla3xxx: fix potential memleak in ql3xxx_send() [ Upstream commit 62a7311fb96c61d281da9852dbee4712fc8c3277 ] The ql3xxx_send() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in error handling case, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it. Fixes: bd36b0ac5d06 ("qla3xxx: Add support for Qlogic 4032 chip.") Signed-off-by: Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1668675039-21138-1-git-send-email-zhangchangzhong@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c index e62e3a9d5249..4ad4fb832a4a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qla3xxx.c @@ -2472,6 +2472,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t ql3xxx_send(struct sk_buff *skb, skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frags); if (tx_cb->seg_count == -1) { netdev_err(ndev, "%s: invalid segment count!\n", __func__); + dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; }