This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
s390/qeth: fix early exit from error path
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:
s390-qeth-fix-early-exit-from-error-path.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 Thu Dec 14 11:45:58 CET 2017
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:40:17 +0200
Subject: s390/qeth: fix early exit from error path
From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 83cf79a2fec3cf499eb6cb9eb608656fc2a82776 ]
When the allocation of the addr buffer fails, we need to free
our refcount on the inetdevice before returning.
Signed-off-by: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/net/qeth_l3_main.c
@@ -1593,7 +1593,7 @@ static void qeth_l3_free_vlan_addresses4
addr = qeth_l3_get_addr_buffer(QETH_PROT_IPV4);
if (!addr)
- return;
+ goto out;
spin_lock_bh(&card->ip_lock);
@@ -1607,6 +1607,7 @@ static void qeth_l3_free_vlan_addresses4
spin_unlock_bh(&card->ip_lock);
kfree(addr);
+out:
in_dev_put(in_dev);
}
@@ -1631,7 +1632,7 @@ static void qeth_l3_free_vlan_addresses6
addr = qeth_l3_get_addr_buffer(QETH_PROT_IPV6);
if (!addr)
- return;
+ goto out;
spin_lock_bh(&card->ip_lock);
@@ -1646,6 +1647,7 @@ static void qeth_l3_free_vlan_addresses6
spin_unlock_bh(&card->ip_lock);
kfree(addr);
+out:
in6_dev_put(in6_dev);
#endif /* CONFIG_QETH_IPV6 */
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-thinko-in-ipv4-multicast-address-tracking.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-gso-throughput-regression.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-fix-early-exit-from-error-path.patch
queue-4.9/s390-qeth-build-max-size-gso-skbs-on-l2-devices.patch