Patch "IB/SA: Use correct free function" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

Patch "IB/SA: Use correct free function" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

[gregkh]

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

    IB/SA: Use correct free function

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:
     ib-sa-use-correct-free-function.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 0f377d86252d11bfea941852785e3094b93601a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 22:45:27 +0300
Subject: IB/SA: Use correct free function

From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>

commit 0f377d86252d11bfea941852785e3094b93601a7 upstream.

Fixes a direct call to kfree_skb when nlmsg_free should be used.

Fixes: 2ca546b92a02 ('IB/sa: Route SA pathrecord query through netlink')
Signed-off-by: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ static int ib_nl_send_msg(struct ib_sa_q
 	data = ibnl_put_msg(skb, &nlh, query->seq, 0, RDMA_NL_LS,
 			    RDMA_NL_LS_OP_RESOLVE, NLM_F_REQUEST);
 	if (!data) {
-		kfree_skb(skb);
+		nlmsg_free(skb);
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 	}
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from markb@mellanox.com are

queue-4.4/ib-iwpm-fix-a-potential-skb-leak.patch
queue-4.4/ib-sa-use-correct-free-function.patch