patch "USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors" added to usb-next

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 my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:02:58 +0200
Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors

Make sure to free the port private data before returning after a failed probe attempt.

---
 drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

index 8967de6623c4..677558c99a97 100644
@@ -1411,6 +1411,12 @@ static int garmin_port_probe(struct usb_serial_port *port)
 	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;
 }

2.15.0