[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect objects

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt17.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From c2d28e5fe653c366c938e8ffdb64ec35ba73e08e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:56:00 +0200
Subject: netfilter: ctnetlink: put back references to master ct and expect
 objects

commit 95dd8653de658143770cb0e55a58d2aab97c79d2 upstream.

We have to put back the references to the master conntrack and the expectation
that we just created, otherwise we'll leak them.

Fixes: 0ef71ee1a5b9 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: refactor ctnetlink_create_expect")
Reported-by: Tim Wiess <Tim.Wiess at watchguard.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 300ed1eec729..3f96dbd25389 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -2957,11 +2957,6 @@ ctnetlink_create_expect(struct net *net, u16 zone,
 	}

 	err = nf_ct_expect_related_report(exp, portid, report);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto err_exp;
-
-	return 0;
-err_exp:
 	nf_ct_expect_put(exp);
 err_ct:
 	nf_ct_put(ct);