This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet() to the 5.10-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-sun3_82586-fix-potential-memory-leak-in-sun3_825.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 14fc2725589e5c094d46152c0111b146b793ebdc Author: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 15 22:41:48 2024 +0800 net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet() [ Upstream commit 2cb3f56e827abb22c4168ad0c1bbbf401bb2f3b8 ] The sun3_82586_send_packet() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of skb->len being too long, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <20241015144148.7918-1-wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c index 83a6114afbf90..3278e2126dc29 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/sun3_82586.c @@ -1015,6 +1015,7 @@ sun3_82586_send_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev) if(skb->len > XMIT_BUFF_SIZE) { printk("%s: Sorry, max. framelength is %d bytes. The length of your frame is %d bytes.\n",dev->name,XMIT_BUFF_SIZE,skb->len); + dev_kfree_skb(skb); return NETDEV_TX_OK; }