Patch "hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute" has been added to the 4.7-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute

to the 4.7-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:
     hwmon-iio_hwmon-fix-memory-leak-in-name-attribute.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.7 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 5d17d3b4bbf3becb89fd48b74340a50a39736f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:47:09 +0200
Subject: hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute

From: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>

commit 5d17d3b4bbf3becb89fd48b74340a50a39736f6d upstream.

The "name" variable's memory is now freed when the device is destructed
thanks to devm function.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Schulz <quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com>
Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Fixes: e0f8a24e0edfd ("staging:iio::hwmon interface client driver.")
Fixes: 61bb53bcbdd86 ("hwmon: (iio_hwmon) Add support for humidity sensors")
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c |   24 ++++++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/iio_hwmon.c
@@ -110,24 +110,24 @@ static int iio_hwmon_probe(struct platfo
 
 		switch (type) {
 		case IIO_VOLTAGE:
-			a->dev_attr.attr.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
-							  "in%d_input",
-							  in_i++);
+			a->dev_attr.attr.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+							       "in%d_input",
+							       in_i++);
 			break;
 		case IIO_TEMP:
-			a->dev_attr.attr.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
-							  "temp%d_input",
-							  temp_i++);
+			a->dev_attr.attr.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+							       "temp%d_input",
+							       temp_i++);
 			break;
 		case IIO_CURRENT:
-			a->dev_attr.attr.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
-							  "curr%d_input",
-							  curr_i++);
+			a->dev_attr.attr.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+							       "curr%d_input",
+							       curr_i++);
 			break;
 		case IIO_HUMIDITYRELATIVE:
-			a->dev_attr.attr.name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL,
-							  "humidity%d_input",
-							  humidity_i++);
+			a->dev_attr.attr.name = devm_kasprintf(dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+							       "humidity%d_input",
+							       humidity_i++);
 			break;
 		default:
 			ret = -EINVAL;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com are

queue-4.7/hwmon-iio_hwmon-fix-memory-leak-in-name-attribute.patch