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Patch "usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak

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:
usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.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.

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From foo@baz Thu Dec 14 21:30:47 CET 2017

From: John Keeping <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:55:30 +0000
Subject: usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak

From: John Keeping <[email protected]>

[ 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.

---
 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c +1 -0
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ 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 [email protected] are

queue-3.18/usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.patch