This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: release cifs root_cred after exit_cifs to the 3.18-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: cifs-release-cifs-root_cred-after-exit_cifs.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 94183331e815617246b1baa97e0916f358c794bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2017 16:03:27 +0800 Subject: cifs: release cifs root_cred after exit_cifs From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 94183331e815617246b1baa97e0916f358c794bb upstream. memory leak was found by kmemleak. exit_cifs_spnego should be called before cifs module removed, or cifs root_cred will not be released. kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff880070a3ce40 (size 192): backtrace: kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0x1d0 prepare_kernel_cred+0x20/0x120 init_cifs_spnego+0x2d/0x170 [cifs] 0xffffffffc07801f3 do_one_initcall+0x51/0x1b0 do_init_module+0x60/0x1fd load_module+0x161e/0x1b60 SYSC_finit_module+0xa9/0x100 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ exit_cifs(void) exit_cifs_idmap(); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL - unregister_key_type(&cifs_spnego_key_type); + exit_cifs_spnego(); #endif cifs_destroy_request_bufs(); cifs_destroy_mids(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/cifs-release-cifs-root_cred-after-exit_cifs.patch queue-3.18/cifs-release-auth_key.response-for-reconnect.patch