Patch "ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path" 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

    ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path

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:
     ipx-call-ipxitf_put-in-ioctl-error-path.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 ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 13:58:53 +0300
Subject: ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>

commit ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 upstream.

We should call ipxitf_put() if the copy_to_user() fails.

Reported-by: 李强 <liqiang6-s@360.cn>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/ipx/af_ipx.c |    5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
+++ b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
@@ -1168,11 +1168,10 @@ static int ipxitf_ioctl(unsigned int cmd
 		sipx->sipx_network	= ipxif->if_netnum;
 		memcpy(sipx->sipx_node, ipxif->if_node,
 			sizeof(sipx->sipx_node));
-		rc = -EFAULT;
+		rc = 0;
 		if (copy_to_user(arg, &ifr, sizeof(ifr)))
-			break;
+			rc = -EFAULT;
 		ipxitf_put(ipxif);
-		rc = 0;
 		break;
 	}
 	case SIOCAIPXITFCRT:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@oracle.com are

queue-4.4/ext4-crypto-fix-some-error-handling.patch
queue-4.4/ipx-call-ipxitf_put-in-ioctl-error-path.patch