The patch below does not apply to the 4.19-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 7a542bee27c6a57e45c33cbbdc963325fd6493af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:32:48 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] virtio_net: fix memory leak inside XPD_TX with mergeable When we call xdp_convert_buff_to_frame() to get xdpf, if it returns NULL, we should check if xdp_page was allocated by xdp_linearize_page(). If it is newly allocated, it should be freed here alone. Just like any other "goto err_xdp". Fixes: 44fa2dbd4759 ("xdp: transition into using xdp_frame for ndo_xdp_xmit") Signed-off-by: Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index ec8e1b3108c3..3b3eebad3977 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -1057,8 +1057,11 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device *dev, case XDP_TX: stats->xdp_tx++; xdpf = xdp_convert_buff_to_frame(&xdp); - if (unlikely(!xdpf)) + if (unlikely(!xdpf)) { + if (unlikely(xdp_page != page)) + put_page(xdp_page); goto err_xdp; + } err = virtnet_xdp_xmit(dev, 1, &xdpf, 0); if (unlikely(!err)) { xdp_return_frame_rx_napi(xdpf);