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

    ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.

to the 3.0-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:
     ipv6-multicast-fix-memory-leak-in-input-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

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


>From f442924080f4730ad3881a07077480e4ea693f66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:16:08 -0400
Subject: ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in input path.


From: Ben Greear <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2015de5fe2a47086a3260802275932bfd810884e ]

Have to free the skb before returning if we fail
the fib lookup.

Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6mr.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6mr.c
@@ -2051,8 +2051,10 @@ int ip6_mr_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
        int err;
 
        err = ip6mr_fib_lookup(net, &fl6, &mrt);
-       if (err < 0)
+       if (err < 0) {
+               kfree_skb(skb);
                return err;
+       }
 
        read_lock(&mrt_lock);
        cache = ip6mr_cache_find(mrt,


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

queue-3.0/ipv6-multicast-fix-memory-leak-in-ipv6-multicast.patch
queue-3.0/ipv6-multicast-fix-memory-leak-in-input-path.patch
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