From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20121028231600.184354174@decadent.org.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:16:51 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Lennart Sorensen , Johan Hovold , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [ 075/105] USB: serial: Fix memory leak in sierra_release() In-Reply-To: <20121028231536.970033833@decadent.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Lennart Sorensen commit f7bc5051667b74c3861f79eed98c60d5c3b883f7 upstream. I found a memory leak in sierra_release() (well sierra_probe() I guess) that looses 8 bytes each time the driver releases a device. Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen Acked-by: Johan Hovold Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c index 01d882c..76ef95b 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c @@ -959,6 +959,7 @@ static void sierra_release(struct usb_serial *serial) continue; kfree(portdata); } + kfree(serial->private); } #ifdef CONFIG_PM