This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: Fix memory leak to the 4.4-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: netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-memory-leak.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 10:35:49 CET 2017 From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:07:10 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nfnl_cthelper: Fix memory leak From: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f83bf8da1135ca635aac8f062cad3f001fcf3a26 ] We have memory leaks of nf_conntrack_helper & expect_policy. Signed-off-by: Jeffy Chen <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cthelper.c @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ nfnl_cthelper_create(const struct nlattr ret = nfnl_cthelper_parse_expect_policy(helper, tb[NFCTH_POLICY]); if (ret < 0) - goto err; + goto err1; strncpy(helper->name, nla_data(tb[NFCTH_NAME]), NF_CT_HELPER_NAME_LEN); helper->data_len = ntohl(nla_get_be32(tb[NFCTH_PRIV_DATA_LEN])); @@ -247,10 +247,12 @@ nfnl_cthelper_create(const struct nlattr ret = nf_conntrack_helper_register(helper); if (ret < 0) - goto err; + goto err2; return 0; -err: +err2: + kfree(helper->expect_policy); +err1: kfree(helper); return ret; } @@ -696,6 +698,8 @@ nfnl_cthelper_del(struct sock *nfnl, str found = true; nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(cur); + kfree(cur->expect_policy); + kfree(cur); } } /* Make sure we return success if we flush and there is no helpers */ @@ -759,6 +763,8 @@ static void __exit nfnl_cthelper_exit(vo continue; nf_conntrack_helper_unregister(cur); + kfree(cur->expect_policy); + kfree(cur); } } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-memory-leak.patch