netdev - Suggest stable pick for nfnetlink

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Date:   Tue, 30 May 2017 15:38:36 -0700
From:   Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...omium.org>,
        liping.zhang@...eadtrum.com, pablo@...filter.org
Subject: Suggest stable pick for nfnetlink_queue memory leak

Hi,

I was running kmemleak on a kernel based on 4.4.64 and I noticed that
my memory leak was fixed by commit b18bcb0019cf ("netfilter:
nfnetlink_queue: fix memory leak when attach expectation
successfully").  It seems like perhaps this should go to linux-stable?
 It's not a huge leak, but the fix is simple.

It looks as if the leak has existed since commit bd0779370588
("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: allow to attach expectations to
conntracks")

Thanks!

-Doug