Patch "IB/mlx5: Fix steering resource leak" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

From: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2016-10-28 18:20:29

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

    IB/mlx5: Fix steering resource leak

to the 4.8-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-mlx5-fix-steering-resource-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From 7055a29471eebf4b62687944694222635ed44b09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maor Gottlieb <redacted>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 14:16:30 +0300
Subject: IB/mlx5: Fix steering resource leak

From: Maor Gottlieb <redacted>

commit 7055a29471eebf4b62687944694222635ed44b09 upstream.

Fix multicast flow rule leak on adding unicast rule failure.

Fixes: 038d2ef87572 ('IB/mlx5: Add flow steering support')
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -1843,6 +1843,7 @@ static struct mlx5_ib_flow_handler *crea
 						 &leftovers_specs[LEFTOVERS_UC].flow_attr,
 						 dst);
 		if (IS_ERR(handler_ucast)) {
+			mlx5_del_flow_rule(handler->rule);
 			kfree(handler);
 			handler = handler_ucast;
 		} else {

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

queue-4.8/ib-mlx5-fix-steering-resource-leak.patch
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