[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "vti: remove duplicated code to fix a memory leak" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    vti: remove duplicated code to fix a memory leak

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 4cf4c56110ff5e035fdf4bb202ef531da15d1134 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <amwang at redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 13:00:57 +0800
Subject: vti: remove duplicated code to fix a memory leak

[ Upstream commit ab6c7a0a43c2eaafa57583822b619b22637b49c7 ]

vti module allocates dev->tstats twice: in vti_fb_tunnel_init()
and in vti_tunnel_init(), this lead to a memory leak of
dev->tstats.

Just remove the duplicated operations in vti_fb_tunnel_init().

(candidate for -stable)

Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Cc: Saurabh Mohan <saurabh.mohan at vyatta.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_vti.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c b/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c
index c3a4233..5ccf343 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_vti.c
@@ -645,17 +645,10 @@ static int __net_init vti_fb_tunnel_init(struct net_device *dev)
 	struct iphdr *iph = &tunnel->parms.iph;
 	struct vti_net *ipn = net_generic(dev_net(dev), vti_net_id);

-	tunnel->dev = dev;
-	strcpy(tunnel->parms.name, dev->name);
-
 	iph->version		= 4;
 	iph->protocol		= IPPROTO_IPIP;
 	iph->ihl		= 5;

-	dev->tstats = alloc_percpu(struct pcpu_tstats);
-	if (!dev->tstats)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-
 	dev_hold(dev);
 	rcu_assign_pointer(ipn->tunnels_wc[0], tunnel);
 	return 0;
--
1.8.1.2