Patch "virtio: fix memory leak in virtqueue_add()" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    virtio: fix memory leak in virtqueue_add()

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:
     virtio-fix-memory-leak-in-virtqueue_add.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 58625edf9e2515ed41dac2a24fa8004030a87b87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:16:31 +0000
Subject: virtio: fix memory leak in virtqueue_add()

From: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>

commit 58625edf9e2515ed41dac2a24fa8004030a87b87 upstream.

When using the indirect buffers feature, 'desc' is allocated in
virtqueue_add() but isn't freed before leaving on a ring full error,
causing a memory leak.

For example, it seems rather clear that this can trigger
with virtio net if mergeable buffers are not used.

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyj.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c
@@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ static inline int virtqueue_add(struct v
 		 * host should service the ring ASAP. */
 		if (out_sgs)
 			vq->notify(&vq->vq);
+		if (indirect)
+			kfree(desc);
 		END_USE(vq);
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	}


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from weiyj.lk@gmail.com are

queue-4.7/virtio-fix-memory-leak-in-virtqueue_add.patch