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

    USB: sierra: fix memory leak in attach 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-sierra-fix-memory-leak-in-attach-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 7e41f9bcdd2e813ea2a3c40db291d87ea06b559f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:29:17 +0200
Subject: USB: sierra: fix memory leak in attach error path

From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>

commit 7e41f9bcdd2e813ea2a3c40db291d87ea06b559f upstream.

Make sure port private data is deallocated on errors in attach.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static int sierra_startup(struct usb_ser
                        dev_dbg(&port->dev, "%s: kmalloc for "
                                "sierra_port_private (%d) failed!\n",
                                __func__, i);
-                       return -ENOMEM;
+                       goto err;
                }
                spin_lock_init(&portdata->lock);
                init_usb_anchor(&portdata->active);
@@ -944,6 +944,13 @@ static int sierra_startup(struct usb_ser
        }
 
        return 0;
+err:
+       for (--i; i >= 0; --i) {
+               portdata = usb_get_serial_port_data(serial->port[i]);
+               kfree(portdata);
+       }
+
+       return -ENOMEM;
 }
 
 static void sierra_release(struct usb_serial *serial)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.6/usb-opticon-fix-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-omninet-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-keyspan-fix-null-pointer-dereferences-and-memory-leaks.patch
queue-3.6/usb-quatech2-fix-io-after-disconnect.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mos7840-remove-null-urb-submission.patch
queue-3.6/usb-usb-wwan-fix-multiple-memory-leaks-in-error-paths.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mos7840-remove-invalid-disconnect-handling.patch
queue-3.6/usb-whiteheat-fix-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-option-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-metro-usb-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mos7840-fix-port-device-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mos7840-fix-urb-leak-at-release.patch
queue-3.6/usb-serial-fix-memory-leak-in-sierra_release.patch
queue-3.6/usb-ipw-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-quatech2-fix-port-data-memory-leaks.patch
queue-3.6/usb-opticon-fix-dma-from-stack.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-quatech2-fix-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-qcserial-fix-interface-data-memory-leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-sierra-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-whiteheat-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-metro-usb-fix-io-after-disconnect.patch
queue-3.6/usb-digi_acceleport-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-quatech2-fix-close-and-disconnect-urb-handling.patch
queue-3.6/usb-sierra-fix-memory-leak-in-probe-error-path.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mos7720-fix-port-data-memory-leak.patch
queue-3.6/usb-mct_u232-fix-broken-close.patch
queue-3.6/usb-sierra-fix-memory-leak-in-attach-error-path.patch
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