This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled hwmon: (sht15) Fix memory leak if regulator_enable() fails
to the 3.0-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-sht15-fix-memory-leak-if-regulator_enable-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 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 li...@roeck-us.net Mon Mar 18 12:40:31 2013 From: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 06:32:16 -0700 Subject: hwmon: (sht15) Fix memory leak if regulator_enable() fails To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>, Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> Message-ID: <1363440736-14964-1-git-send-email-li...@roeck-us.net> From: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Commit 3e78080f8148 ('hwmon: (sht15) Check return value of regulator_enable()') depends on the use of devm_kmalloc() for automatic resource cleanup in the failure cases, which was introduced in 3.7. In older stable branches, explicit cleanup is needed. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- Applies to stable branches between 3.0 and 3.6 where commit 3e78080f8148 has been applied. drivers/hwmon/sht15.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/sht15.c @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ static int __devinit sht15_probe(struct if (ret != 0) { dev_err(&pdev->dev, "failed to enable regulator: %d\n", ret); - return ret; + goto err_free_data; } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from li...@roeck-us.net are queue-3.0/hwmon-sht15-fix-memory-leak-if-regulator_enable-fails.patch queue-3.0/hwmon-lineage-pem-add-missing-terminating-entry-for-pem__attributes.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html