Patch "NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic

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:
     nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.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 <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 00:07:43 -0400
Subject: NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>

commit 3f807e5ae5597bd65a6fff684083e8eaa21f3fa7 upstream.

The caller of rpc_run_task also gets a reference that must be put.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c
@@ -443,6 +443,7 @@ int nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic(struc
 	task = rpc_run_task(&task_setup);
 	if (IS_ERR(task))
 		return PTR_ERR(task);
+	rpc_put_task(task);
 	return 0;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlayton@poochiereds.net are

queue-4.8/nfsv4.2-fix-a-reference-leak-in-nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic.patch