Patch "ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

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

ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi

to the 4.14-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:
ipmi_si-fix-memory-leak-on-new_smi.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:54:52 +0100
Subject: ipmi_si: fix memory leak on new_smi

From: Colin Ian King <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit c0a32fe13cd323ca9420500b16fd69589c9ba91e ]

The error exit path omits kfree'ing the allocated new_smi, causing a memory leak. Fix this by kfree'ing new_smi.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#14582571 ("Resource Leak")

---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -3469,6 +3469,7 @@ static int add_smi(struct smi_info *new_
 				 ipmi_addr_src_to_str(new_smi->addr_source),
 				 si_to_str[new_smi->si_type]);
 			rv = -EBUSY;
+			kfree(new_smi);
 			goto out_err;
 		}
 	}

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

queue-4.14/btrfs-avoid-null-pointer-dereference-on-fs_info-when-calling-btrfs_crit.patch queue-4.14/ipmi_si-fix-memory-leak-on-new_smi.patch