Patch "tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

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:
tipc-fix-memory-leak-in-tipc_accept_from_sock.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.

From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 22:00:20 +0100
Subject: tipc: fix memory leak in tipc_accept_from_sock()

From: Jon Maloy <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit a7d5f107b4978e08eeab599ee7449af34d034053 ]

When the function tipc_accept_from_sock() fails to create an instance of struct tipc_subscriber it omits to free the already created instance of struct tipc_conn instance before it returns.

We fix that with this commit.

---
 net/tipc/server.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ static int tipc_accept_from_sock(struct
 	newcon->usr_data = s->tipc_conn_new(newcon->conid);
 	if (!newcon->usr_data) {
 		sock_release(newsock);
+		conn_put(newcon);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 

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

queue-4.4/tipc-fix-memory-leak-in-tipc_accept_from_sock.patch