Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/306] 4.19.87-stable review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 12:28:15PM +0200, Jouni Högander wrote:
> Hello Greg,
> 
> jouni.hogander@xxxxxxxxxx (Jouni Högander) writes:
> 
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>> > Now queued up, I'll push out -rc2 versions with this fix.
> >>> >
> >>> > greg k-h
> >>> 
> >>> We have also been informed about another regression these two commits
> >>> are causing:
> >>> 
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ace19af4-7cae-babd-bac5-cd3505dcd874@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>> 
> >>> I suggest to drop these two patches from this queue, and give us a
> >>> week to shake out the regressions of the change, and once ready, we
> >>> can include the complete set of fixes to stable (probably in a week or
> >>> two).
> >>
> >> Ok, thanks for the information, I've now dropped them from all of the
> >> queues that had them in them.
> >>
> >> greg k-h
> >
> > I have now run more extensive Syzkaller testing on following patches:
> >
> > cb626bf566eb net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak
> > ddd9b5e3e765 net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in rx_queue_add_kobject
> > e0b60903b434 net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in netdev_queue_add_kobje
> > 48a322b6f996 net-sysfs: fix netdev_queue_add_kobject() breakage
> > b8eb718348b8 net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
> >
> > These patches are fixing couple of memory leaks including this one found
> > by Syzbot: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=ad8ca40ecd77896d51e2
> >
> > I can reproduce these memory leaks in following stable branches: 4.14,
> > 4.19, and 5.4.
> >
> > These are all now merged into net/master tree and based on my testing
> > they are ready to be taken into stable branches as well.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> > Jouni Högander
> 
> These four patches are still missing from 4.14 and 4.19 branches:
> 
> ddd9b5e3e765 net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in rx_queue_add_kobject
> e0b60903b434 net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in netdev_queue_add_kobje
> 48a322b6f996 net-sysfs: fix netdev_queue_add_kobject() breakage
> b8eb718348b8 net-sysfs: Fix reference count leak in rx|netdev_queue_add_kobject
> 
> Could you please consider taking them in or let me know if you want some
> further activities from my side?

Thanks for the list, I have now queued these all up.

greg k-h