This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: fix resource leak in error handling path in 'rio_dma_transfer()' to the 4.9-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: drivers-rapidio-devices-rio_mport_cdev.c-fix-resource-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-rio_dma_transfer.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:26:17 CET 2017 From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 15:37:57 -0800 Subject: drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: fix resource leak in error handling path in 'rio_dma_transfer()' From: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b1402dcb5643b7a27d46a05edd7491d49ba0e248 ] If 'dma_map_sg()', we should branch to the existing error handling path to free some resources before returning. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/61292a4f369229eee03394247385e955027283f8.1505687047.git.christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexandre Bounine <alexandre.bounine@xxxxxxx> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian K_nig <christian.koenig@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c +++ b/drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c @@ -964,7 +964,8 @@ rio_dma_transfer(struct file *filp, u32 req->sgt.sgl, req->sgt.nents, dir); if (nents == -EFAULT) { rmcd_error("Failed to map SG list"); - return -EFAULT; + ret = -EFAULT; + goto err_pg; } ret = do_dma_request(req, xfer, sync, nents); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/bus-arm-ccn-check-memory-allocation-failure.patch queue-4.9/usb-gadgetfs-fix-a-potential-memory-leak-in-dev_config.patch queue-4.9/drivers-rapidio-devices-rio_mport_cdev.c-fix-resource-leak-in-error-handling-path-in-rio_dma_transfer.patch