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