This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cdc-acm: memory leak in error case
to the 3.10-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:
cdc-acm-memory-leak-in-error-case.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d908f8478a8d18e66c80a12adb27764920c1f1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:54:35 +0100
Subject: cdc-acm: memory leak in error case
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
commit d908f8478a8d18e66c80a12adb27764920c1f1ca upstream.
If probe() fails not only the attributes need to be removed
but also the memory freed.
Reported-by: Ahmed Tamrawi <ahmedtamrawi@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
@@ -1366,6 +1366,7 @@ alloc_fail8:
&dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev,
&dev_attr_iCountryCodeRelDate);
+ kfree(acm->country_codes);
}
device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev, &dev_attr_bmCapabilities);
alloc_fail7:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from oneukum@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.10/cdc-acm-memory-leak-in-error-case.patch
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