This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak to the 4.2-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: kvm-irqchip-fix-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ba60c41ae392b473a1897faa0b8739fcb8759d69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:33:53 +0530 Subject: kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> commit ba60c41ae392b473a1897faa0b8739fcb8759d69 upstream. We were taking the exit path after checking ue->flags and return value of setup_routing_entry(), but 'e' was not freed incase of a failure. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: William Dauchy <william@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- virt/kvm/irqchip.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/virt/kvm/irqchip.c +++ b/virt/kvm/irqchip.c @@ -213,11 +213,15 @@ int kvm_set_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm, goto out; r = -EINVAL; - if (ue->flags) + if (ue->flags) { + kfree(e); goto out; + } r = setup_routing_entry(new, e, ue); - if (r) + if (r) { + kfree(e); goto out; + } ++ue; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/kvm-irqchip-fix-memory-leak.patch queue-4.2/thermal-exynos-fix-register-read-in-tmu.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