Patch "usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix memory leak" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix memory leak

to the 3.18-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-3.18 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
@@ -954,6 +954,7 @@ static int tower_probe (struct usb_inter
 
 
 exit:
+	kfree(get_version_reply);
 	return retval;
 
 error:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maksim.salau@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.18/usb-misc-legousbtower-fix-memory-leak.patch



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