[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in FTU quirk" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 24 15:05:22 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in FTU quirk
to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 15:45:57 +0100
Subject: ALSA: usb-audio: Fix memory leak in FTU quirk
commit 1a290581ded60e87276741f8ca97b161d2b226fc upstream.
M-audio FastTrack Ultra quirk doesn't release the kzalloc'ed memory.
This patch adds the private_free callback to release it properly.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c b/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
index f119a41ed9a9..7c83bab69dee 100644
--- a/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
+++ b/sound/usb/mixer_quirks.c
@@ -885,6 +885,11 @@ static int snd_ftu_eff_switch_put(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl,
return changed;
}
+static void kctl_private_value_free(struct snd_kcontrol *kctl)
+{
+ kfree((void *)kctl->private_value);
+}
+
static int snd_ftu_create_effect_switch(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer,
int validx, int bUnitID)
{
@@ -919,6 +924,7 @@ static int snd_ftu_create_effect_switch(struct usb_mixer_interface *mixer,
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ kctl->private_free = kctl_private_value_free;
err = snd_ctl_add(mixer->chip->card, kctl);
if (err < 0)
return err;
--
2.1.0
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