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Subject[PATCH 232/270] USB: serial: Fix memory leak in sierra_release()
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3.5.7u1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

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 <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@canonical.com>
---
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 d423d36..7d7ab91 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/sierra.c
@@ -964,6 +964,7 @@ static void sierra_release(struct usb_serial *serial)
continue;
kfree(portdata);
}
+ kfree(serial->private);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_PM
--
1.7.9.5


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