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Patch "NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic

to the 4.4-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:
nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

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From 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 00:07:43 -0400
Subject: NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic

From: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>

commit 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 upstream.

The caller of rpc_run_task also gets a reference that must be put.

---
 fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c +1 -0
@@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ int nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic(struc
 	task = rpc_run_task(&task_setup);
 	if (IS_ERR(task))
 		return PTR_ERR(task);
+	rpc_put_task(task);
 	return 0;
 }
 

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

queue-4.4/nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.patch