This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4: Fix memory leak in nfs4_set_security_label to the 6.6-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: nfsv4-fix-memory-leak-in-nfs4_set_security_label.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit cd56098b58e0b31b61bf213c9316239ce7739674 Author: Dmitry Mastykin <mastichi@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed May 22 10:45:24 2024 +0300 NFSv4: Fix memory leak in nfs4_set_security_label [ Upstream commit aad11473f8f4be3df86461081ce35ec5b145ba68 ] We leak nfs_fattr and nfs4_label every time we set a security xattr. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mastykin <mastichi@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index f0953200acd08..05490d4784f1a 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -6268,6 +6268,7 @@ nfs4_set_security_label(struct inode *inode, const void *buf, size_t buflen) if (status == 0) nfs_setsecurity(inode, fattr); + nfs_free_fattr(fattr); return status; } #endif /* CONFIG_NFS_V4_SECURITY_LABEL */