Patch "kcm: fix /proc memory leak" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

Patch "kcm: fix /proc memory leak" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    kcm: fix /proc memory leak

to the 4.6-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:
     kcm-fix-proc-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Wed Jul  6 16:50:56 PDT 2016
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:36:28 +0200
Subject: kcm: fix /proc memory leak

From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>

[ Upstream commit d19af0a76444fde629667ecb823c0ee28f9f67d8 ]

Every open of /proc/net/kcm leaks 16 bytes of memory as is reported by
kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88059c0e3458 (size 192):
  comm "cat", pid 1401, jiffies 4294935742 (age 310.720s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 45 71 96 05 88 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  (Eq.............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8156a2de>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16e/0x230
    [<ffffffff8162a479>] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0
    [<ffffffffa0578510>] kcm_seq_open+0x0/0x30 [kcm]
    [<ffffffff8162a479>] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0
    [<ffffffff8162a8cf>] __seq_open_private+0x2f/0xa0
    [<ffffffff81712548>] seq_open_net+0x38/0xa0
...

It is caused by a missing free in the ->release path. So fix it by
providing seq_release_net as the ->release method.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Fixes: cd6e111bf5 (kcm: Add statistics and proc interfaces)
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/kcm/kcmproc.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c
+++ b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcm_
 	.open		= kcm_seq_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.release	= seq_release_net,
 };
 
 static struct kcm_seq_muxinfo kcm_seq_muxinfo = {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jslaby@suse.cz are

queue-4.6/kcm-fix-proc-memory-leak.patch