This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/rxe: Fix a memory leak in rxe_qp_cleanup() to the 4.9-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: ib-rxe-fix-a-memory-leak-in-rxe_qp_cleanup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e259934d4df7f99f2a5c2c4f074f6a55bd4b1722 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:15:07 +0100 Subject: IB/rxe: Fix a memory leak in rxe_qp_cleanup() From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit e259934d4df7f99f2a5c2c4f074f6a55bd4b1722 upstream. A socket is associated with every QP by the rxe driver but sock_release() is never called. Add a call to sock_release() in rxe_qp_cleanup(). Fixes: commit 8700e3e7c48A5 ("Add Soft RoCE driver") Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Moni Shoua <monis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kamal Heib <kamalh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Amir Vadai <amirv@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Haggai Eran <haggaie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Moni Shoua <monis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c @@ -855,4 +855,5 @@ void rxe_qp_cleanup(void *arg) free_rd_atomic_resources(qp); kernel_sock_shutdown(qp->sk, SHUT_RDWR); + sock_release(qp->sk); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bart.vanassche@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ib-mad-fix-an-array-index-check.patch queue-4.9/ipoib-avoid-reading-an-uninitialized-member-variable.patch queue-4.9/ib-rxe-fix-a-memory-leak-in-rxe_qp_cleanup.patch queue-4.9/ib-multicast-check-ib_find_pkey-return-value.patch queue-4.9/ib-cma-fix-a-race-condition-in-iboe_addr_get_sgid.patch queue-4.9/iscsi-target-return-error-if-unable-to-add-network-portal.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