Patch "orangefs: fix memory leak of string 'new' on exit path" 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

orangefs: fix memory leak of string 'new' on exit path

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:
orangefs-fix-memory-leak-of-string-new-on-exit-path.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: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 15:18:06 +0000
Subject: orangefs: fix memory leak of string 'new' on exit path

From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

commit 4defb5f912a0ba60e07e91a4b62634814cd99b7f upstream.

allocates string 'new' is not free'd on the exit path when cdm_element_count <= 0. Fix this by kfree'ing it.

Fixes CoverityScan CID#1375923 "Resource Leak"

---
 fs/orangefs/orangefs-debugfs.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -671,8 +671,10 @@ int orangefs_prepare_debugfs_help_string
 		 */
 		cdm_element_count =
 			orangefs_prepare_cdm_array(client_debug_array_string);
-		if (cdm_element_count <= 0)
+		if (cdm_element_count <= 0) {
+			kfree(new);
 			goto out;
+		}
 
 		for (i = 0; i < cdm_element_count; i++) {
 			strlcat(new, "\t", string_size);

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

queue-4.9/orangefs-fix-memory-leak-of-string-new-on-exit-path.patch