This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled team: Fix double free in error path 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: team-fix-double-free-in-error-path.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 Mar 28 18:38:30 CEST 2018 From: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 12:42:10 +0200 Subject: team: Fix double free in error path From: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cbcc607e18422555db569b593608aec26111cb0b ] The __send_and_alloc_skb() receives a skb ptr as a parameter but in case it fails the skb is not valid: - Send failed and released the skb internally. - Allocation failed. The current code tries to release the skb in case of failure which causes redundant freeing. Fixes: 9b00cf2d1024 ("team: implement multipart netlink messages for options transfers") Signed-off-by: Arkadi Sharshevsky <arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/team/team.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/team/team.c +++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c @@ -2394,7 +2394,7 @@ send_done: if (!nlh) { err = __send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, team, portid, send_func); if (err) - goto errout; + return err; goto send_done; } @@ -2680,7 +2680,7 @@ send_done: if (!nlh) { err = __send_and_alloc_skb(&skb, team, portid, send_func); if (err) - goto errout; + return err; goto send_done; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arkadis@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/devlink-remove-redundant-free-on-error-path.patch queue-4.14/team-fix-double-free-in-error-path.patch