This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix memory leaks in probe error path to the 3.14-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: usb-serial-io_edgeport-fix-memory-leaks-in-probe-error-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c8d62957d450cc1a22ce3242908709fe367ddc8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 20:07:57 +0200 Subject: USB: serial: io_edgeport: fix memory leaks in probe error path From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c8d62957d450cc1a22ce3242908709fe367ddc8e upstream. URBs and buffers allocated in attach for Epic devices would never be deallocated in case of a later probe error (e.g. failure to allocate minor numbers) as disconnect is then never called. Fix by moving deallocation to release and making sure that the URBs are first unlinked. Fixes: f9c99bb8b3a1 ("USB: usb-serial: replace shutdown with disconnect, release") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c @@ -2966,16 +2966,9 @@ static void edge_disconnect(struct usb_s { struct edgeport_serial *edge_serial = usb_get_serial_data(serial); - /* stop reads and writes on all ports */ - /* free up our endpoint stuff */ if (edge_serial->is_epic) { usb_kill_urb(edge_serial->interrupt_read_urb); - usb_free_urb(edge_serial->interrupt_read_urb); - kfree(edge_serial->interrupt_in_buffer); - usb_kill_urb(edge_serial->read_urb); - usb_free_urb(edge_serial->read_urb); - kfree(edge_serial->bulk_in_buffer); } } @@ -2988,6 +2981,16 @@ static void edge_release(struct usb_seri { struct edgeport_serial *edge_serial = usb_get_serial_data(serial); + if (edge_serial->is_epic) { + usb_kill_urb(edge_serial->interrupt_read_urb); + usb_free_urb(edge_serial->interrupt_read_urb); + kfree(edge_serial->interrupt_in_buffer); + + usb_kill_urb(edge_serial->read_urb); + usb_free_urb(edge_serial->read_urb); + kfree(edge_serial->bulk_in_buffer); + } + kfree(edge_serial); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/usb-serial-quatech2-fix-use-after-free-in-probe-error-path.patch queue-3.14/usb-serial-option-add-support-for-cinterion-ph8-and-ahxx.patch queue-3.14/usb-serial-io_edgeport-fix-memory-leaks-in-attach-error-path.patch queue-3.14/usb-serial-mxuport-fix-use-after-free-in-probe-error-path.patch queue-3.14/usb-serial-keyspan-fix-use-after-free-in-probe-error-path.patch queue-3.14/usb-serial-io_edgeport-fix-memory-leaks-in-probe-error-path.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html