4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a7d5f107b4978e08eeab599ee7449af34d034053 ]
When the function tipc_accept_from_sock() fails to create an instance of
struct tipc_subscriber it omits to free the already created instance of
struct tipc_conn instance before it returns.
We fix that with this commit.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/tipc/server.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/tipc/server.c
+++ b/net/tipc/server.c
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ static int tipc_accept_from_sock(struct
newcon->usr_data = s->tipc_conn_new(newcon->conid);
if (!newcon->usr_data) {
sock_release(newsock);
+ conn_put(newcon);
return -ENOMEM;
}