Patch "ipv4: Fix memory leak in exception case for splitting tries" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

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

ipv4: Fix memory leak in exception case for splitting tries

to the 4.8-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:
ipv4-fix-memory-leak-in-exception-case-for-splitting-tries.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

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

From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:46:12 -0500
Subject: ipv4: Fix memory leak in exception case for splitting tries

From: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3114cdfe66c156345b0ae34e2990472f277e0c1b ]

Fix a small memory leak that can occur where we leak a fib_alias in the event of us not being able to insert it into the local table.

---
 net/ipv4/fib_trie.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -1713,8 +1713,10 @@ struct fib_table *fib_trie_unmerge(struc
 				local_l = fib_find_node(lt, &local_tp, l->key);
 
 			if (fib_insert_alias(lt, local_tp, local_l, new_fa,
-					     NULL, l->key))
+					     NULL, l->key)) {
+				kmem_cache_free(fn_alias_kmem, new_fa);
 				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 
 		/* stop loop if key wrapped back to 0 */

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

queue-4.8/ipv4-fix-memory-leak-in-exception-case-for-splitting-tries.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-restore-fib_trie_flush_external-function-and-fix-call-ordering.patch queue-4.8/gso-reload-iph-after-pskb_may_pull.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-drop-suffix-update-from-resize-code.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-drop-leaf-from-suffix-pull-push-functions.patch