This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Tue Dec 12 13:38:50 CET 2017
From: John Keeping john@metanate.com Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:55:30 +0000 Subject: usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak
From: John Keeping john@metanate.com
[ 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.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping john@metanate.com Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c @@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ 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 john@metanate.com are
queue-4.4/usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.patch