This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tipc: error path leak fixes in tipc_enable_bearer() to the 4.14-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: tipc-error-path-leak-fixes-in-tipc_enable_bearer.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 Wed Feb 28 16:23:28 CET 2018 From: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 09:35:16 +0200 Subject: tipc: error path leak fixes in tipc_enable_bearer() From: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 19142551b2be4a9e13838099fde1351386e5e007 ] Fix memory leak in tipc_enable_bearer() if enable_media() fails, and cleanup with bearer_disable() if tipc_mon_create() fails. Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/bearer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/tipc/bearer.c +++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c @@ -324,6 +324,7 @@ restart: if (res) { pr_warn("Bearer <%s> rejected, enable failure (%d)\n", name, -res); + kfree(b); return -EINVAL; } @@ -347,8 +348,10 @@ restart: if (skb) tipc_bearer_xmit_skb(net, bearer_id, skb, &b->bcast_addr); - if (tipc_mon_create(net, bearer_id)) + if (tipc_mon_create(net, bearer_id)) { + bearer_disable(net, b); return -ENOMEM; + } pr_info("Enabled bearer <%s>, discovery domain %s, priority %u\n", name, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/perf-x86-intel-plug-memory-leak-in-intel_pmu_init.patch queue-4.14/tipc-error-path-leak-fixes-in-tipc_enable_bearer.patch queue-4.14/tipc-fix-tipc_mon_delete-oops-in-tipc_enable_bearer-error-path.patch