Patch "kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak
to the 4.2-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:
kvm-irqchip-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 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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ba60c41ae392b473a1897faa0b8739fcb8759d69Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:33:53 +0530
Subject: kvm: irqchip: fix memory leak
From: Sudip Mukherjee <[email protected]>
commit ba60c41ae392b473a1897faa0b8739fcb8759d69 upstream.
We were taking the exit path after checking ue->flags and return value of setup_routing_entry(), but 'e' was not freed incase of a failure.
--- virt/kvm/irqchip.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
virt/kvm/irqchip.c +6 -2
@@ -213,11 +213,15 @@ int kvm_set_irq_routing(struct kvm *kvm, goto out; r = -EINVAL ; -if (ue->flags) +if (ue->flags) { +kfree (e); goto out; + } r =setup_routing_entry (new, e, ue); -if (r) +if (r) { +kfree (e); goto out; + } ++ue; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.2/kvm-irqchip-fix-memory-leak.patch queue-4.2/thermal-exynos-fix-register-read-in-tmu.patch