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

    NFSv4.1: Fix a request leak on the back channel

to the 3.0-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:
     nfsv4.1-fix-a-request-leak-on-the-back-channel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b3b02ae5865c2dcd506322e0fc6def59a042e72f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 15:26:38 -0400
Subject: NFSv4.1: Fix a request leak on the back channel

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

commit b3b02ae5865c2dcd506322e0fc6def59a042e72f upstream.

If the call to svc_process_common() fails, then the request
needs to be freed before we can exit bc_svc_process.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 net/sunrpc/svc.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -1302,7 +1302,8 @@ bc_svc_process(struct svc_serv *serv, st
                                                sizeof(req->rq_snd_buf));
                return bc_send(req);
        } else {
-               /* Nothing to do to drop request */
+               /* drop request */
+               xprt_free_bc_request(req);
                return 0;
        }
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.0/nfsv4.1-fix-a-request-leak-on-the-back-channel.patch
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