This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: serial: Fix memory leak in sierra_release()
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-serial-fix-memory-leak-in-sierra_release.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 f7bc5051667b74c3861f79eed98c60d5c3b883f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:23:09 -0400
Subject: USB: serial: Fix memory leak in sierra_release()
From: Lennart Sorensen <[email protected]>
commit f7bc5051667b74c3861f79eed98c60d5c3b883f7 upstream.
I found a memory leak in sierra_release() (well sierra_probe() I guess)
that looses 8 bytes each time the driver releases a device.
Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
@@ -961,6 +961,7 @@ static void sierra_release(struct usb_se
continue;
kfree(portdata);
}
+ kfree(serial->private);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PM
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-3.6/usb-serial-fix-memory-leak-in-sierra_release.patch
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