Patch "key: Fix resource leak" has been added to the 3.4-stable tree

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

    key: Fix resource leak

to the 3.4-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:
     key-fix-resource-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.

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


>From a84a921978b7d56e0e4b87ffaca6367429b4d8ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 12:20:02 +0100
Subject: key: Fix resource leak

From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit a84a921978b7d56e0e4b87ffaca6367429b4d8ff upstream.

On an error iov may still have been reallocated and need freeing

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 security/keys/keyctl.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1081,12 +1081,12 @@ long keyctl_instantiate_key_iov(key_seri
 	ret = rw_copy_check_uvector(WRITE, _payload_iov, ioc,
 				    ARRAY_SIZE(iovstack), iovstack, &iov, 1);
 	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
+		goto err;
 	if (ret == 0)
 		goto no_payload_free;
 
 	ret = keyctl_instantiate_key_common(id, iov, ioc, ret, ringid);
-
+err:
 	if (iov != iovstack)
 		kfree(iov);
 	return ret;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.4/key-fix-resource-leak.patch
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