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 4.9-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-4.9 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
@@ -1413,6 +1413,12 @@ 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-4.9/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch
queue-4.9/staging-greybus-add-host-device-function-pointer-checks.patch
queue-4.9/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch
queue-4.9/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch