This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: ipw: fix interface-data memory leak in error path
to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
usb-ipw-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a997448c89905b80aa4022f734f03685e733d711 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:42:39 +0200
Subject: USB: ipw: fix interface-data memory leak in error path
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
commit a997448c89905b80aa4022f734f03685e733d711 upstream.
Move interface data allocation to attach so that it is deallocated
should usb-serial probe fail.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ipw.c
@@ -209,8 +209,7 @@ static int ipw_open(struct tty_struct *t
return 0;
}
-/* fake probe - only to allocate data structures */
-static int ipw_probe(struct usb_serial *serial, const struct usb_device_id *id)
+static int ipw_attach(struct usb_serial *serial)
{
struct usb_wwan_intf_private *data;
@@ -310,7 +309,7 @@ static struct usb_serial_driver ipw_devi
.num_ports = 1,
.open = ipw_open,
.close = ipw_close,
- .probe = ipw_probe,
+ .attach = ipw_attach,
.release = ipw_release,
.port_probe = usb_wwan_port_probe,
.port_remove = usb_wwan_port_remove,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.6/usb-usb-wwan-fix-multiple-memory-leaks-in-error-paths.patch
queue-3.6/usb-option-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-ipw-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mct_u232-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-ch341-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-digi_acceleport-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mct_u232-fix-broken-close.patch
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