From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43705 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751732AbcHLOYJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Aug 2016 10:24:09 -0400 Subject: patch "USB: serial: fix memleak in driver-registration error path" added to usb-linus To: klimov.linux@gmail.com, johan@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu From: Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:24:05 +0200 Message-ID: <14710118451590@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: serial: fix memleak in driver-registration error path to my usb git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git in the usb-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >>From 647024a7df36014bbc4479d92d88e6b77c0afcf6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Klimov Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 02:34:46 +0100 Subject: USB: serial: fix memleak in driver-registration error path udriver struct allocated by kzalloc() will not be freed if usb_register() and next calls fail. This patch fixes this by adding one more step with kfree(udriver) in error path. Signed-off-by: Alexey Klimov Acked-by: Alan Stern Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold --- drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c index b1b9bac44016..d213cf44a7e4 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ int usb_serial_register_drivers(struct usb_serial_driver *const serial_drivers[] rc = usb_register(udriver); if (rc) - return rc; + goto failed_usb_register; for (sd = serial_drivers; *sd; ++sd) { (*sd)->usb_driver = udriver; @@ -1451,6 +1451,8 @@ int usb_serial_register_drivers(struct usb_serial_driver *const serial_drivers[] while (sd-- > serial_drivers) usb_serial_deregister(*sd); usb_deregister(udriver); +failed_usb_register: + kfree(udriver); return rc; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_serial_register_drivers); -- 2.9.2