This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit

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-failed-urb-submit.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 c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:39:41 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: garmin_gps: fix memory leak on failed URB submit

From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org

commit c4ac4496e835b78a45dfbf74f6173932217e4116 upstream.

Make sure to free the URB transfer buffer in case submission fails (e.g. due to a disconnect).

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

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

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/garmin_gps.c @@ -1044,6 +1044,7 @@ static int garmin_write_bulk(struct usb_ "%s - usb_submit_urb(write bulk) failed with status = %d\n", __func__, status); count = status; + kfree(buffer); }

/* we are done with this urb, so let the host driver

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