Patch "can: gs_usb: fix memory leak in gs_cmd_reset()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    can: gs_usb: fix memory leak in gs_cmd_reset()

to the 4.9-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:
     can-gs_usb-fix-memory-leak-in-gs_cmd_reset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 5cda3ee5138e91ac369ed9d0b55eab0dab077686 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 14:03:42 +0200
Subject: can: gs_usb: fix memory leak in gs_cmd_reset()

From: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>

commit 5cda3ee5138e91ac369ed9d0b55eab0dab077686 upstream.

This patch adds the missing kfree() in gs_cmd_reset() to free the
memory that is not used anymore after usb_control_msg().

Cc: Maximilian Schneider <max@schneidersoft.net>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c
@@ -265,6 +265,8 @@ static int gs_cmd_reset(struct gs_usb *g
 			     sizeof(*dm),
 			     1000);
 
+	kfree(dm);
+
 	return rc;
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mkl@pengutronix.de are

queue-4.9/can-gs_usb-fix-memory-leak-in-gs_cmd_reset.patch