This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in FTU quirk to the 3.17-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: alsa-usb-audio-fix-memory-leak-in-ftu-quirk.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.17 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1a290581ded60e87276741f8ca97b161d2b226fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:45:57 +0100 Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in FTU quirk From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> commit 1a290581ded60e87276741f8ca97b161d2b226fc upstream. M-audio FastTrack Ultra quirk doesn't release the kzalloc'ed memory. This patch adds the private_free callback to release it properly. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c +++ b/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c @@ -885,6 +885,11 @@ static int snd_ftu_eff_switch_put(struct return changed; } +static void kctl_private_value_free(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl) +{ + kfree((void *)kctl->private_value); +} + static int snd_ftu_create_effect_switch(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer, int validx, int bUnitID) { @@ -919,6 +924,7 @@ static int snd_ftu_create_effect_switch( return -ENOMEM; } + kctl->private_free = kctl_private_value_free; err = snd_ctl_add(mixer->chip->card, kctl); if (err < 0) return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are queue-3.17/net-ppp-don-t-call-bpf_prog_create-in-ppp_lock.patch queue-3.17/alsa-hda-add-mute-led-control-for-lenovo-ideapad-z560.patch queue-3.17/alsa-usb-audio-fix-memory-leak-in-ftu-quirk.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html