Patch "SUNRPC: fix xprt leak on xps allocation failure" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    SUNRPC: fix xprt leak on xps allocation failure

to the 4.6-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:
     sunrpc-fix-xprt-leak-on-xps-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 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 1208fd569c07ab84aa5d024abd863267c2953b4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:07:17 -0400
Subject: SUNRPC: fix xprt leak on xps allocation failure

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

commit 1208fd569c07ab84aa5d024abd863267c2953b4a upstream.

Callers of rpc_create_xprt expect it to put the xprt on success and
failure.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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

--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -453,9 +453,10 @@ static struct rpc_clnt *rpc_create_xprt(
 	struct rpc_xprt_switch *xps;
 
 	xps = xprt_switch_alloc(xprt, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (xps == NULL)
+	if (xps == NULL) {
+		xprt_put(xprt);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-
+	}
 	clnt = rpc_new_client(args, xps, xprt, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(clnt))
 		return clnt;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfields@redhat.com are

queue-4.6/nfsd-check-permissions-when-setting-acls.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd-always-lock-state-exclusively.patch
queue-4.6/rpc-share-one-xps-between-all-backchannels.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd-extend-the-mutex-holding-region-around-in-nfsd4_process_open2.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd4-rpc-move-backchannel-create-logic-into-rpc-code.patch
queue-4.6/sunrpc-fix-xprt-leak-on-xps-allocation-failure.patch