From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49456 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934406AbcIEOYl (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2016 10:24:41 -0400 Subject: Patch "hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree To: quentin.schulz@free-electrons.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux@roeck-us.net Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 16:24:08 +0200 Message-ID: <1473085448246134@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 hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute to the 4.4-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-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 5d17d3b4bbf3becb89fd48b74340a50a39736f6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quentin Schulz Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 09:47:09 +0200 Subject: hwmon: (iio_hwmon) fix memory leak in name attribute From: Quentin Schulz 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 Reported-by: Guenter Roeck Fixes: e0f8a24e0edfd ("staging:iio::hwmon interface client driver.") Fixes: 61bb53bcbdd86 ("hwmon: (iio_hwmon) Add support for humidity sensors") Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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 @@ -109,24 +109,24 @@ 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-4.4/hwmon-iio_hwmon-fix-memory-leak-in-name-attribute.patch