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

    fou: clean up socket with kfree_rcu

to the 4.1-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:
     fou-clean-up-socket-with-kfree_rcu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

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


>From foo@baz Wed Dec 30 19:52:45 PST 2015
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:01:53 +0100
Subject: fou: clean up socket with kfree_rcu

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 3036facbb7be3a169e35be3b271162b0fa564a2d ]

fou->udp_offloads is managed by RCU. As it is actually included inside
the fou sockets, we cannot let the memory go out of scope before a grace
period. We either can synchronize_rcu or switch over to kfree_rcu to
manage the sockets. kfree_rcu seems appropriate as it is used by vxlan
and geneve.

Fixes: 23461551c00628c ("fou: Support for foo-over-udp RX path")
Cc: Tom Herbert <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/ipv4/fou.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv4/fou.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fou.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct fou {
        u16 type;
        struct udp_offload udp_offloads;
        struct list_head list;
+       struct rcu_head rcu;
 };
 
 #define FOU_F_REMCSUM_NOPARTIAL BIT(0)
@@ -421,7 +422,7 @@ static void fou_release(struct fou *fou)
        list_del(&fou->list);
        udp_tunnel_sock_release(sock);
 
-       kfree(fou);
+       kfree_rcu(fou, rcu);
 }
 
 static int fou_encap_init(struct sock *sk, struct fou *fou, struct fou_cfg 
*cfg)


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

queue-4.1/ipv6-automatically-enable-stable-privacy-mode-if-stable_secret-set.patch
queue-4.1/af_unix-revert-lock_interruptible-in-stream-receive-code.patch
queue-4.1/fou-clean-up-socket-with-kfree_rcu.patch
queue-4.1/ipv6-keep-existing-flags-when-setting-ifa_f_optimistic.patch
queue-4.1/net-add-validation-for-the-socket-syscall-protocol-argument.patch
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