This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit
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-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.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 c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:39:41 +0100
Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 upstream.
Make sure to free the URB transfer buffer in case submission fails (e.g.
due to a disconnect).
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c
@@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@ static int garmin_write_bulk(struct usb_
"%s - usb_submit_urb(write bulk) failed with status = %d\n",
__func__, status);
count = status;
+ kfree(buffer);
}
/* we are done with this urb, so let the host driver
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch
queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch