This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: x86: bpf: don't forget to free sk_filter (v2) to the 3.12-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: net-x86-bpf-don-t-forget-to-free-sk_filter-v2.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 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 5 16:16:37 PST 2013 From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 08:35:12 +0400 Subject: net: x86: bpf: don't forget to free sk_filter (v2) From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 98bbc06aabac5a2dcc46580d20c59baf8ebe479f ] sk_filter isn't freed if bpf_func is equal to sk_run_filter. This memory leak was introduced by v3.12-rc3-224-gd45ed4a4 "net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq". Before this patch sk_filter was freed in sk_filter_release_rcu, now it should be freed in bpf_jit_free. Here is output of kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff8800b774eab0 (size 128): comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294669014 (age 124.062s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 20 63 7f b7 00 88 ff ff ........ c...... 60 d4 55 81 ff ff ff ff 30 d9 55 81 ff ff ff ff `.U.....0.U..... backtrace: [<ffffffff816444be>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0 [<ffffffff811845af>] __kmalloc+0xef/0x260 [<ffffffff81534028>] sock_kmalloc+0x38/0x60 [<ffffffff8155d4dd>] sk_attach_filter+0x5d/0x190 [<ffffffff815378a1>] sock_setsockopt+0x991/0x9e0 [<ffffffff81531bd6>] SyS_setsockopt+0xb6/0xd0 [<ffffffff8165f3e9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff v2: add extra { } after else Fixes: d45ed4a4e33a ("net: fix unsafe set_memory_rw from softirq") Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c +++ b/arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c @@ -788,5 +788,7 @@ void bpf_jit_free(struct sk_filter *fp) if (fp->bpf_func != sk_run_filter) { INIT_WORK(&fp->work, bpf_jit_free_deferred); schedule_work(&fp->work); + } else { + kfree(fp); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from avagin@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/tcp-don-t-update-snd_nxt-when-a-socket-is-switched-from-repair-mode.patch queue-3.12/net-x86-bpf-don-t-forget-to-free-sk_filter-v2.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html