Patch "IB/rxe: Fix a memory leak in rxe_qp_cleanup()" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

IB/rxe: Fix a memory leak in rxe_qp_cleanup()

to the 4.8-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:
ib-rxe-fix-a-memory-leak-in-rxe_qp_cleanup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

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

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 17:15:07 +0100
Subject: IB/rxe: Fix a memory leak in rxe_qp_cleanup()

From: Bart Van Assche <[email protected]>

commit e259934d4df7f99f2a5c2c4f074f6a55bd4b1722 upstream.

A socket is associated with every QP by the rxe driver but sock_release() is never called. Add a call to sock_release() in rxe_qp_cleanup().

---
 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_qp.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -850,4 +850,5 @@ void rxe_qp_cleanup(void *arg)
 	free_rd_atomic_resources(qp);
 
 	kernel_sock_shutdown(qp->sk, SHUT_RDWR);
+	sock_release(qp->sk);
 }

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

queue-4.8/ib-mad-fix-an-array-index-check.patch queue-4.8/ipoib-avoid-reading-an-uninitialized-member-variable.patch queue-4.8/ib-rxe-fix-a-memory-leak-in-rxe_qp_cleanup.patch queue-4.8/ib-multicast-check-ib_find_pkey-return-value.patch queue-4.8/ib-cma-fix-a-race-condition-in-iboe_addr_get_sgid.patch queue-4.8/iscsi-target-return-error-if-unable-to-add-network-portal.patch