Patch "dm crypt: fix memory leak in crypt_ctr_cipher_old()" has been added to the 4.13-stable tree

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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



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