[ 3.5.yuz extended stable ] Patch "USB: whiteheat: fix memory leak in error path" has been added to staging queue
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Nov 22 04:49:28 UTC 2012
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
USB: whiteheat: fix memory leak in error path
to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.yuz extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.5.yuz tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Herton
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>From 34f045ead62bc2461e72dc90381181cf444e1618 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:29:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] USB: whiteheat: fix memory leak in error path
commit c129197c99550d356cf5f69b046994dd53cd1b9d upstream.
Make sure command buffer is deallocated in case of errors during attach.
Cc: <support at connecttech.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski at canonical.com>
---
drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c b/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c
index 473635e..b65ac03 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/whiteheat.c
@@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ no_firmware:
"%s: please contact support at connecttech.com\n",
serial->type->description);
kfree(result);
+ kfree(command);
return -ENODEV;
no_command_private:
--
1.7.9.5
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