This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects to the 4.1-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: netfilter-ctnetlink-put-back-references-to-master-ct-and-expect-objects.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 95dd8653de658143770cb0e55a58d2aab97c79d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:56:00 +0200 Subject: netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 95dd8653de658143770cb0e55a58d2aab97c79d2 upstream. We have to put back the references to the master conntrack and the expectation that we just created, otherwise we'll leak them. Fixes: 0ef71ee1a5b9 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: refactor ctnetlink_create_expect") Reported-by: Tim Wiess <Tim.Wiess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c @@ -2995,11 +2995,6 @@ ctnetlink_create_expect(struct net *net, } err = nf_ct_expect_related_report(exp, portid, report); - if (err < 0) - goto err_exp; - - return 0; -err_exp: nf_ct_expect_put(exp); err_ct: nf_ct_put(ct); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/netfilter-nft_compat-skip-family-comparison-in-case-of-nfproto_unspec.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nf_conntrack-support-expectations-in-different-zones.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nf_log-wait-for-rcu-grace-after-logger-unregistration.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nftables-do-not-run-chains-in-the-wrong-network-namespace.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-ctnetlink-put-back-references-to-master-ct-and-expect-objects.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nfnetlink-work-around-wrong-endianess-in-res_id-field.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nf_log-don-t-zap-all-loggers-on-unregister.patch queue-4.1/netfilter-nf_tables-use-32-bit-addressing-register-from-nft_type_to_reg.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html