4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1bfb159673957644951ab0a8d2aec44b93ddb1ae ] We currently get the following kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff8800039d9820 (size 32): comm "softirq", pid 0, jiffies 4295212383 (age 792.416s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 0c e0 03 00 88 ff ff ff 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 01 ff 11 00 02 86 dd 00 00 ff ff ff ff ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8152b4aa>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff811d8ec8>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xb8/0x1c0 [<ffffffffa0389683>] __br_mdb_notify+0x2a3/0x300 [bridge] [<ffffffffa038a0ce>] br_mdb_notify+0x6e/0x70 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0386479>] br_multicast_add_group+0x109/0x150 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0386518>] br_ip6_multicast_add_group+0x58/0x60 [bridge] [<ffffffffa0387fb5>] br_multicast_rcv+0x1d5/0xdb0 [bridge] [<ffffffffa037d7cf>] br_handle_frame_finish+0xcf/0x510 [bridge] [<ffffffffa03a236b>] br_nf_hook_thresh.part.27+0xb/0x10 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3738>] br_nf_hook_thresh+0x48/0xb0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3fb9>] br_nf_pre_routing_finish_ipv6+0x109/0x1d0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a4400>] br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6+0xd0/0x14c [br_netfilter] [<ffffffffa03a3c27>] br_nf_pre_routing+0x197/0x3d0 [br_netfilter] [<ffffffff814a2952>] nf_iterate+0x52/0x60 [<ffffffff814a29bc>] nf_hook_slow+0x5c/0xb0 [<ffffffffa037ddf4>] br_handle_frame+0x1a4/0x2c0 [bridge] This happens when switchdev_port_obj_add() fails. This patch frees complete_info object in the fail path. Reviewed-by: Vallish Vaidyeshwara <vallish@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c +++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c @@ -323,7 +323,8 @@ static void __br_mdb_notify(struct net_d __mdb_entry_to_br_ip(entry, &complete_info->ip); mdb.obj.complete_priv = complete_info; mdb.obj.complete = br_mdb_complete; - switchdev_port_obj_add(port_dev, &mdb.obj); + if (switchdev_port_obj_add(port_dev, &mdb.obj)) + kfree(complete_info); } } else if (port_dev && type == RTM_DELMDB) { switchdev_port_obj_del(port_dev, &mdb.obj);