Re: [PATCH 0/3] USB: serial: even more fixes for v3.7

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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:05:04PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 09:40:03AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:42:38PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > This is the third and hopefully last set of fixes for v3.7 this time around.
> > > 
> > > Turns out that the three usb_wwan driver all allocated interface private data
> > > in probe rather than attach, which is a bug as that memory will not be freed if
> > > usb-serial probe fails (before the serial->attached flag is set).
> > > 
> > > These three patches depend on "[PATCH 18/21] USB: usb-wwan: fix multiple memory
> > > leaks in error paths" in the first series of fixes:
> > > 
> > > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=135115389307260&w=2
> > > 
> > > I did not tag that one nor these three with a stable tag as they fix problems
> > > in error paths, but perhaps they should be applied to the stable trees as well.
> > > Your decision, Greg.
> > 
> > I've now marked them for stable and applied them.
> 
> Just make sure you backport
> 
> 	b8f0e82044c9ba4 ("USB: usb-wwan: fix multiple memory leaks in
> 	error paths")
> 
> in usb-linus as well as that one does not have a stable tag.

Ah, thanks, I missed that, will do.

greg k-h
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