Patch "NFSv4: Fix memory and state leak in _nfs4_open_and_get_state" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    NFSv4: Fix memory and state leak in _nfs4_open_and_get_state

to the 4.4-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-fix-memory-and-state-leak-in-_nfs4_open_and_get_state.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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 a974deee477af89411e0f80456bfb344ac433c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 11:29:46 -0500
Subject: NFSv4: Fix memory and state leak in _nfs4_open_and_get_state

From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

commit a974deee477af89411e0f80456bfb344ac433c98 upstream.

If we exit because the file access check failed, we currently
leak the struct nfs4_state. We need to attach it to the
open context before returning.

Fixes: 3efb9722475e ("NFSv4: Refactor _nfs4_open_and_get_state..")
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/nfs4proc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -2452,6 +2452,7 @@ static int _nfs4_open_and_get_state(stru
 	ret = PTR_ERR(state);
 	if (IS_ERR(state))
 		goto out;
+	ctx->state = state;
 	if (server->caps & NFS_CAP_POSIX_LOCK)
 		set_bit(NFS_STATE_POSIX_LOCKS, &state->flags);
 
@@ -2474,7 +2475,6 @@ static int _nfs4_open_and_get_state(stru
 	if (ret != 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	ctx->state = state;
 	if (d_inode(dentry) == state->inode) {
 		nfs_inode_attach_open_context(ctx);
 		if (read_seqcount_retry(&sp->so_reclaim_seqcount, seq))


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@primarydata.com are

queue-4.4/nfsv4-fix-memory-and-state-leak-in-_nfs4_open_and_get_state.patch