[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "cdc-acm: memory leak in error case" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cdc-acm: memory leak in error case

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-ckt4.

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 76e1309839ec6a9c27ea2192e6f2b81530e9e696 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:54:35 +0100
Subject: cdc-acm: memory leak in error case

commit d908f8478a8d18e66c80a12adb27764920c1f1ca upstream.

If probe() fails not only the attributes need to be removed
but also the memory freed.

Reported-by: Ahmed Tamrawi <ahmedtamrawi at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
index 7daaef192c28..48e7a7e60937 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
@@ -1470,6 +1470,7 @@ alloc_fail8:
 				&dev_attr_wCountryCodes);
 		device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev,
 				&dev_attr_iCountryCodeRelDate);
+		kfree(acm->country_codes);
 	}
 	device_remove_file(&acm->control->dev, &dev_attr_bmCapabilities);
 alloc_fail7:
--
2.1.4