This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dm crypt: fix memory leak in crypt_ctr_cipher_old() to the 4.13-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: dm-crypt-fix-memory-leak-in-crypt_ctr_cipher_old.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.13 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From bd86e32059526e2d0d13ca1e4447dfbbddb6e5cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:28:57 +0800 Subject: dm crypt: fix memory leak in crypt_ctr_cipher_old() From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit bd86e32059526e2d0d13ca1e4447dfbbddb6e5cc upstream. Fix memory leak of cipher_api. Fixes: 33d2f09fcb35 (dm crypt: introduce new format of cipher with "capi:" prefix) Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-crypt.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c @@ -2470,6 +2470,7 @@ static int crypt_ctr_cipher_old(struct d kfree(cipher_api); return ret; } + kfree(cipher_api); return 0; bad_mem: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.13/dm-crypt-fix-memory-leak-in-crypt_ctr_cipher_old.patch