Patch "dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of unsuccessful connection request" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

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

dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of unsuccessful connection request

to the 4.10-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:
dccp-fix-memory-leak-during-tear-down-of-unsuccessful-connection-request.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

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

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 00:01:30 +0100
Subject: dccp: fix memory leak during tear-down of unsuccessful connection request

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 72ef9c4125c7b257e3a714d62d778ab46583d6a3 ]

This patch fixes a memory leak, which happens if the connection request is not fulfilled between parsing the DCCP options and handling the SYN (because e.g. the backlog is full), because we forgot to free the list of ack vectors.

---
 net/dccp/ccids/ccid2.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -749,6 +749,7 @@ static void ccid2_hc_tx_exit(struct sock
 	for (i = 0; i < hc->tx_seqbufc; i++)
 		kfree(hc->tx_seqbuf[i]);
 	hc->tx_seqbufc = 0;
+	dccp_ackvec_parsed_cleanup(&hc->tx_av_chunks);
 }
 
 static void ccid2_hc_rx_packet_recv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)

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

queue-4.10/tun-fix-premature-pollout-notification-on-tun-devices.patch queue-4.10/dccp-fix-memory-leak-during-tear-down-of-unsuccessful-connection-request.patch queue-4.10/ipv6-avoid-write-to-a-possibly-cloned-skb.patch queue-4.10/bridge-drop-netfilter-fake-rtable-unconditionally.patch