This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in IPv6 multicast.
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-ipv6-multicast.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 96be35d1f8e04252c85db66eb87d48c91ebb1ba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:11:01 +0000
Subject: ipv6-multicast: Fix memory leak in IPv6 multicast.
From: Ben Greear <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 67928c4041606f02725f3c95c4c0404e4532df1b ]
If reg_vif_xmit cannot find a routing entry, be sure to
free the skb before returning the error.
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
@@ -696,8 +696,10 @@ static netdev_tx_t reg_vif_xmit(struct s
int err;
err = ip6mr_fib_lookup(net, &fl6, &mrt);
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err < 0) {
+ kfree_skb(skb);
return err;
+ }
read_lock(&mrt_lock);
dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
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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