This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run() to the 3.14-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: bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4d4d8573a8451acc9f01cbea24b7e55f04a252fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:20:59 -0800 Subject: bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run() From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 4d4d8573a8451acc9f01cbea24b7e55f04a252fe upstream. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Joshua Schmid <jschmid@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -884,8 +884,11 @@ void bch_cached_dev_run(struct cached_de buf[SB_LABEL_SIZE] = '\0'; env[2] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "CACHED_LABEL=%s", buf); - if (atomic_xchg(&dc->running, 1)) + if (atomic_xchg(&dc->running, 1)) { + kfree(env[1]); + kfree(env[2]); return; + } if (!d->c && BDEV_STATE(&dc->sb) != BDEV_STATE_NONE) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/bcache-fix-a-leak-in-bch_cached_dev_run.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