This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors 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-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.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 74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:02:58 +0200 Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0 upstream. Make sure to free the port private data before returning after a failed probe attempt. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c @@ -1414,6 +1414,12 @@ static int garmin_port_probe(struct usb_ usb_set_serial_port_data(port, garmin_data_p); status = garmin_init_session(port); + if (status) + goto err_free; + + return 0; +err_free: + kfree(garmin_data_p); return status; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from johan@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch