Patch "fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

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

fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()

to the 4.7-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:
fix-memory-leaks-in-tracing_buffers_splice_read.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory.

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

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 18:31:46 -0400
Subject: fix memory leaks in tracing_buffers_splice_read()

From: Al Viro <[email protected]>

commit 1ae2293dd6d2f5c823cf97e60b70d03631cd622f upstream.

---
 kernel/trace/trace.c |   14 ++++++++------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -5929,9 +5929,6 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 		return -EBUSY;
 #endif
 
-	if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd))
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	if (*ppos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1))
 		return -EINVAL;
 

@@ -5941,6 +5938,9 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 		len &= PAGE_MASK;
 	}
 
+	if (splice_grow_spd(pipe, &spd))
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
  again:
 	trace_access_lock(iter->cpu_file);
 	entries = ring_buffer_entries_cpu(iter->trace_buffer->buffer, iter->cpu_file);

@@ -5998,19 +5998,21 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file
 	/* did we read anything? */
 	if (!spd.nr_pages) {
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
 		if ((file->f_flags & O_NONBLOCK) || (flags & SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK))
-			return -EAGAIN;
+			goto out;
 
 		ret = wait_on_pipe(iter, true);
 		if (ret)
-			return ret;
+			goto out;
 
 		goto again;
 	}
 
 	ret = splice_to_pipe(pipe, &spd);
+out:
 	splice_shrink_spd(&spd);
 
 	return ret;

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

queue-4.7/mm-fix-the-page_swap_info-bug_on-check.patch queue-4.7/autofs-use-dentry-flags-to-block-walks-during-expire.patch queue-4.7/fix-fault_in_multipages_...-on-architectures-with-no-op-access_ok.patch queue-4.7/fix-memory-leaks-in-tracing_buffers_splice_read.patch