On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 02:53:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 07:24:15PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > This is an updated series of fixes rebased on the interface-data memory leak
> > discovered by Lennart.
> >
> > One of the reasons that I missed it was that the interface data was allocated
> > in probe rather than attach, which in itself is a bug as the memory would not
> > get released if usb-serial probe failes before attach returns successfully. The
> > third patch fixes this.
> >
> > I also split out the fix for the port-data memory leak in the error path of
> > attach that was part of my previous patch. This way the first three patches can
> > be backported to most (all?) stable trees, whereas the last patch applies to
> > v3.6 (which contains the (in)famous 0998d063100 ("device-core: Ensure drvdata
> > = NULL when no driver is bound" commit).
> >
> > I included Lennart's patch with an updated commit message for completeness.
> >
> > Lennart, if you care to test this series before it is applied that would be
> > much appreciated.
>
> I backported 1, 2 and 3 for the 3.0.23 kernel I am running, and so far it
> looks to be working. I think our USB HCD driver may have a leak still,
> but someone else is investigating that right now. At least the sierra
> driver appears to have stopped leaking.
Great -- thanks for testing. All three patches are now in 3.0.50 (and
later stable kernels).
Johan
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