This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt to the 3.15-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: sunrpc-fix-a-module-reference-leak-in-svc_handle_xprt.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c789102c20bbbdda6831a273e046715be9d6af79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 14:05:22 -0400 Subject: SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit c789102c20bbbdda6831a273e046715be9d6af79 upstream. If the accept() call fails, we need to put the module reference. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c @@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ static int svc_handle_xprt(struct svc_rq newxpt = xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_accept(xprt); if (newxpt) svc_add_new_temp_xprt(serv, newxpt); + else + module_put(xprt->xpt_class->xcl_owner); } else if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_has_wspace(xprt)) { /* XPT_DATA|XPT_DEFERRED case: */ dprintk("svc: server %p, pool %u, transport %p, inuse=%d\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/nfs-fix-cache_validity-check-in-nfs_write_pageuptodate.patch queue-3.15/nfs-populate-net-in-mount-data-when-remounting.patch queue-3.15/pnfs-handle-allocation-errors-correctly-in-filelayout_alloc_layout_hdr.patch queue-3.15/nfs-use-raw_write_seqcount_begin-end-int-nfs4_reclaim_open_state.patch queue-3.15/sunrpc-fix-a-module-reference-leak-in-svc_handle_xprt.patch queue-3.15/nfs-don-t-declare-inode-uptodate-unless-all-attributes-were-checked.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