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 3.18-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-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:02:58 +0200 Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on probe errors

From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org

commit 74d471b598444b7f2d964930f7234779c80960a0 upstream.

Make sure to free the port private data before returning after a failed probe attempt.

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c @@ -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 johan@kernel.org are

queue-3.18/usb-serial-qcserial-add-pid-vid-for-sierra-wireless-em7355-fw-update.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-failed-urb-submit.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-i-o-after-failed-probe-and-remove.patch queue-3.18/usb-serial-garmin_gps-fix-memory-leak-on-probe-errors.patch