This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix memory leak
to the 4.4-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-misc-legousbtower-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 0bd193d62b4270a2a7a09da43ad1034c7ca5b3d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 23:49:26 +0300
Subject: usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix memory leak
From: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 0bd193d62b4270a2a7a09da43ad1034c7ca5b3d3 upstream.
get_version_reply is not freed if function returns with success.
Fixes: 942a48730faf ("usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix buffers on stack")
Reported-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Maksim Salau <maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c
@@ -953,6 +953,7 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_inter
USB_MAJOR, dev->minor);
exit:
+ kfree(get_version_reply);
return retval;
error:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-buffers-on-stack.patch
queue-4.4/usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-memory-leak.patch