This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    NFSv4: fix server_scope memory leak

to the 3.2-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:
     nfsv4-fix-server_scope-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From abe9a6d57b4544ac208401f9c0a4262814db2be4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Weston Andros Adamson <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:17:05 -0500
Subject: NFSv4: fix server_scope memory leak

From: Weston Andros Adamson <[email protected]>

commit abe9a6d57b4544ac208401f9c0a4262814db2be4 upstream.

server_scope would never be freed if nfs4_check_cl_exchange_flags() returned
non-zero

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |   15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -4876,8 +4876,10 @@ int nfs4_proc_exchange_id(struct nfs_cli
                                clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_auth->au_flavor);
 
        res.server_scope = kzalloc(sizeof(struct server_scope), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (unlikely(!res.server_scope))
-               return -ENOMEM;
+       if (unlikely(!res.server_scope)) {
+               status = -ENOMEM;
+               goto out;
+       }
 
        status = rpc_call_sync(clp->cl_rpcclient, &msg, RPC_TASK_TIMEOUT);
        if (!status)
@@ -4894,12 +4896,13 @@ int nfs4_proc_exchange_id(struct nfs_cli
                        clp->server_scope = NULL;
                }
 
-               if (!clp->server_scope)
+               if (!clp->server_scope) {
                        clp->server_scope = res.server_scope;
-               else
-                       kfree(res.server_scope);
+                       goto out;
+               }
        }
-
+       kfree(res.server_scope);
+out:
        dprintk("<-- %s status= %d\n", __func__, status);
        return status;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.2/nfsv4-fix-an-oops-in-the-nfsv4-getacl-code.patch
queue-3.2/nfsv4-fix-server_scope-memory-leak.patch
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