Patch "tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()

to the 4.9-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:
     tipc-fix-a-memory-leak-in-tipc_nl_node_get_link.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Sun Jan 28 17:37:09 CET 2018
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 12:50:25 -0800
Subject: tipc: fix a memory leak in tipc_nl_node_get_link()

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit 59b36613e85fb16ebf9feaf914570879cd5c2a21 ]

When tipc_node_find_by_name() fails, the nlmsg is not
freed.

While on it, switch to a goto label to properly
free it.

Fixes: be9c086715c ("tipc: narrow down exposure of struct tipc_node")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/tipc/node.c |   26 ++++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/tipc/node.c
+++ b/net/tipc/node.c
@@ -1848,36 +1848,38 @@ int tipc_nl_node_get_link(struct sk_buff
 
 	if (strcmp(name, tipc_bclink_name) == 0) {
 		err = tipc_nl_add_bc_link(net, &msg);
-		if (err) {
-			nlmsg_free(msg.skb);
-			return err;
-		}
+		if (err)
+			goto err_free;
 	} else {
 		int bearer_id;
 		struct tipc_node *node;
 		struct tipc_link *link;
 
 		node = tipc_node_find_by_name(net, name, &bearer_id);
-		if (!node)
-			return -EINVAL;
+		if (!node) {
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto err_free;
+		}
 
 		tipc_node_read_lock(node);
 		link = node->links[bearer_id].link;
 		if (!link) {
 			tipc_node_read_unlock(node);
-			nlmsg_free(msg.skb);
-			return -EINVAL;
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto err_free;
 		}
 
 		err = __tipc_nl_add_link(net, &msg, link, 0);
 		tipc_node_read_unlock(node);
-		if (err) {
-			nlmsg_free(msg.skb);
-			return err;
-		}
+		if (err)
+			goto err_free;
 	}
 
 	return genlmsg_reply(msg.skb, info);
+
+err_free:
+	nlmsg_free(msg.skb);
+	return err;
 }
 
 int tipc_nl_node_reset_link_stats(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/tipc-fix-a-memory-leak-in-tipc_nl_node_get_link.patch
queue-4.9/tun-fix-a-memory-leak-for-tfile-tx_array.patch