Patch "xhci: fix memleak in xhci_run()" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

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

xhci: fix memleak in xhci_run()

to the 4.12-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:
xhci-fix-memleak-in-xhci_run.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

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

From: Shu Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:48:31 +0300
Subject: xhci: fix memleak in xhci_run()

From: Shu Wang <[email protected]>

commit d6f5f071f1e13cadecf8aef1faa7e5d6fbc9f33b upstream.

Found this issue by kmemleak.
xhci_run() did not check return val and free command for xhci_queue_vendor_command()

unreferenced object 0xffff88011c0be500 (size 64):
comm "kworker/0:1", pid 58, jiffies 4294670908 (age 50.420s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):
backtrace:

    [<ffffffff8176166a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8121801a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xca/0x1d0
    [<ffffffff81576bf4>] xhci_alloc_command+0x44/0x130
    [<ffffffff8156f1cc>] xhci_run+0x4cc/0x630
    [<ffffffff8153b84b>] usb_add_hcd+0x3bb/0x950
    [<ffffffff8154eac8>] usb_hcd_pci_probe+0x188/0x500
    [<ffffffff815851ac>] xhci_pci_probe+0x2c/0x220
    [<ffffffff813d2ca5>] local_pci_probe+0x45/0xa0
    [<ffffffff810a54e4>] work_for_cpu_fn+0x14/0x20
    [<ffffffff810a8409>] process_one_work+0x149/0x360
    [<ffffffff810a8d08>] worker_thread+0x1d8/0x3c0
    [<ffffffff810ae7d9>] kthread+0x109/0x140
    [<ffffffff8176d585>] ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -622,8 +622,10 @@ int xhci_run(struct usb_hcd *hcd)
 		if (!command)
 			return -ENOMEM;
 
-		xhci_queue_vendor_command(xhci, command, 0, 0, 0,
+		ret = xhci_queue_vendor_command(xhci, command, 0, 0, 0,
 				TRB_TYPE(TRB_NEC_GET_FW));
+		if (ret)
+			xhci_free_command(xhci, command);
 	}
 	xhci_dbg_trace(xhci, trace_xhci_dbg_init,
 			"Finished xhci_run for USB2 roothub");

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

queue-4.12/xhci-fix-memleak-in-xhci_run.patch