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 4.4-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-4.4 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
@@ -1294,7 +1294,7 @@ 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-4.4/cifs-release-cifs-root_cred-after-exit_cifs.patch
queue-4.4/cifs-release-auth_key.response-for-reconnect.patch