Patch "HID: hid-input: Fix accessing freed memory during device disconnect" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

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

HID: hid-input: Fix accessing freed memory during device disconnect

to the 4.1-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:
hid-hid-input-fix-accessing-freed-memory-during-device-disconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

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

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 14:57:30 +0900
Subject: HID: hid-input: Fix accessing freed memory during device disconnect

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]>

commit 0621809e37936e7c2b3eac9165cf2aad7f9189eb upstream.

During unbinding the driver was dereferencing a pointer to memory already freed by power_supply_unregister().

Driver was freeing its internal description of battery through pointers stored in power_supply structure. However, because the core owns the power supply instance, after calling power_supply_unregister() this memory is freed and the driver cannot access these members.

Fix this by storing the pointer to internal description of battery in a local variable before calling power_supply_unregister(), so the pointer remains valid.

---
 drivers/hid/hid-input.c |    7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -462,12 +462,15 @@ out:
 
 static void hidinput_cleanup_battery(struct hid_device *dev)
 {
+	const struct power_supply_desc *psy_desc;
+
 	if (!dev->battery)
 		return;
 
+	psy_desc = dev->battery->desc;
 	power_supply_unregister(dev->battery);
-	kfree(dev->battery->desc->name);
-	kfree(dev->battery->desc);
+	kfree(psy_desc->name);
+	kfree(psy_desc);
 	dev->battery = NULL;
 }
 #else  /* !CONFIG_HID_BATTERY_STRENGTH */

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

queue-4.1/hid-hid-input-fix-accessing-freed-memory-during-device-disconnect.patch