Patch "xen-netback: fix memory leaks on XenBus disconnect" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

xen-netback: fix memory leaks on XenBus disconnect

to the 4.9-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:
xen-netback-fix-memory-leaks-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

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

From: Igor Druzhinin <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:49:37 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: fix memory leaks on XenBus disconnect

From: Igor Druzhinin <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 9a6cdf52b85ea5fb21d2bb31e4a7bc61b79923a7 ]

Eliminate memory leaks introduced several years ago by cleaning the queue resources which are allocated on XenBus connection event. Namely, queue structure array and pages used for IO rings.

---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

@@ -493,11 +493,20 @@ static int backend_create_xenvif(struct
 static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
 {
 	if (be->vif) {
+		unsigned int queue_index;
+
 		xen_unregister_watchers(be->vif);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
 		xenvif_debugfs_delif(be->vif);
 #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
 		xenvif_disconnect_data(be->vif);
+		for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < be->vif->num_queues; ++queue_index)
+			xenvif_deinit_queue(&be->vif->queues[queue_index]);
+
+		vfree(be->vif->queues);
+		be->vif->num_queues = 0;
+		be->vif->queues = NULL;
+
 		xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(be->vif);
 	}
 }

@@ -1040,6 +1049,8 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info
 err:
 	if (be->vif->num_queues > 0)
 		xenvif_disconnect_data(be->vif); /* Clean up existing queues */
+	for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < be->vif->num_queues; ++queue_index)
+		xenvif_deinit_queue(&be->vif->queues[queue_index]);
 	vfree(be->vif->queues);
 	be->vif->queues = NULL;
 	be->vif->num_queues = 0;

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

queue-4.9/xen-netback-protect-resource-cleaning-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch queue-4.9/xen-netback-fix-memory-leaks-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch