This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: gadget: configs: plug 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-gadget-configs-plug-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 foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017
From: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:55:30 +0000
Subject: usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak
From: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 38355b2a44776c25b0f2ad466e8c51bb805b3032 ]
When binding a gadget to a device, "name" is stored in gi->udc_name, but
this does not happen when unregistering and the string is leaked.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ static ssize_t gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store
ret = unregister_gadget(gi);
if (ret)
goto err;
+ kfree(name);
} else {
if (gi->udc_name) {
ret = -EBUSY;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.patch