This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic
to the 4.8-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:
nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 00:07:43 -0400
Subject: NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 upstream.
The caller of rpc_run_task also gets a reference that must be put.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ int nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic(struc
task = rpc_run_task(&task_setup);
if (IS_ERR(task))
return PTR_ERR(task);
+ rpc_put_task(task);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.patch
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