Patch "can: kvaser_usb: free buf in error paths" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

can: kvaser_usb: free buf in error paths

to the 3.18-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:
can-kvaser_usb-free-buf-in-error-paths.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Jimmy Assarsson <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:22:26 +0100
Subject: can: kvaser_usb: free buf in error paths

From: Jimmy Assarsson <[email protected]>

commit 435019b48033138581a6171093b181fc6b4d3d30 upstream.

The allocated buffer was not freed if usb_submit_urb() failed.

---
 drivers/net/can/usb/kvaser_usb.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

@@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ static int kvaser_usb_simple_msg_async(s
 	if (err) {
 		netdev_err(netdev, "Error transmitting URB\n");
 		usb_unanchor_urb(urb);
+		kfree(buf);
 		usb_free_urb(urb);
 		kfree(buf);
 		return err;

@@ -1385,6 +1386,7 @@ static netdev_tx_t kvaser_usb_start_xmit
 
 		atomic_dec(&priv->active_tx_urbs);
 		usb_unanchor_urb(urb);
+		kfree(buf);
 
 		stats->tx_dropped++;
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/can-kvaser_usb-ratelimit-errors-if-incomplete-messages-are-received.patch queue-3.18/can-kvaser_usb-free-buf-in-error-paths.patch queue-3.18/can-kvaser_usb-fix-comparison-bug-in-kvaser_usb_read_bulk_callback.patch