This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/rxe: double free on error 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: ib-rxe-double-free-on-error.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 21 09:02:40 CET 2017 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 08:21:52 +0300 Subject: IB/rxe: double free on error From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit ded260235308f340b979258a4c736e06ba12c747 ] "goto err;" has it's own kfree_skb() call so it's a double free. We only need to free on the "goto exit;" path. Fixes: 8700e3e7c485 ("Soft RoCE driver") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_req.c @@ -726,11 +726,11 @@ next_wqe: ret = rxe_xmit_packet(to_rdev(qp->ibqp.device), qp, &pkt, skb); if (ret) { qp->need_req_skb = 1; - kfree_skb(skb); rollback_state(wqe, qp, &rollback_wqe, rollback_psn); if (ret == -EAGAIN) { + kfree_skb(skb); rxe_run_task(&qp->req.task, 1); goto exit; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/bna-integer-overflow-bug-in-debugfs.patch queue-4.9/btrfs-fix-an-integer-overflow-check.patch queue-4.9/ib-rxe-double-free-on-error.patch