3.8.13.16 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]>

We leak an skb when there are too many frags,
we also stop processing the packet in the middle,
the result is almost sure to be loss of networking.

Reported-by: Michael Dalton <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michael Dalton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 840cf2f..8f009899 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device 
*dev,
                if (i >= MAX_SKB_FRAGS) {
                        pr_debug("%s: packet too long\n", skb->dev->name);
                        skb->dev->stats.rx_length_errors++;
-                       return NULL;
+                       goto err_frags;
                }
                page = virtqueue_get_buf(rq->vq, &len);
                if (!page) {
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *receive_mergeable(struct net_device 
*dev,
 err_skb:
        give_pages(rq, page);
        while (--num_buf) {
+err_frags:
                buf = virtqueue_get_buf(rq->vq, &len);
                if (unlikely(!buf)) {
                        pr_debug("%s: rx error: %d buffers missing\n",
-- 
1.8.3.2

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