Patch "USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree
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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 the 4.4-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-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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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74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
commit 74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0 upstream.
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(+)
drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c +6 -0
@@ -1414,6 +1414,12 @@ static int garmin_port_probe(struct usb_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; }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.4/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch queue-4.4/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch