Patch "usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak

to the 3.18-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-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 foo@baz Thu Dec 14 21:30:47 CET 2017
From: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2017 10:55:30 +0000
Subject: usb: gadget: configs: plug memory leak

From: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>


[ Upstream commit 38355b2a44776c25b0f2ad466e8c51bb805b3032 ]

When binding a gadget to a device, "name" is stored in gi->udc_name, but
this does not happen when unregistering and the string is leaked.

Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@metanate.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ static ssize_t gadget_dev_desc_UDC_store
 		ret = unregister_gadget(gi);
 		if (ret)
 			goto err;
+		kfree(name);
 	} else {
 		if (gi->udc_name) {
 			ret = -EBUSY;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john@metanate.com are

queue-3.18/usb-gadget-configs-plug-memory-leak.patch