This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

staging: gigaset: fix illegal free on probe errors

to my staging git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git in the staging-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

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From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 09:56:09 +0100 Subject: staging: gigaset: fix illegal free on probe errors

The driver failed to initialise its receive-buffer pointer, something which could lead to an illegal free on late probe errors.

Fix this by making sure to clear all driver data at allocation.

Fixes: 2032e2c2309d ("usb_gigaset: code cleanup") Cc: stable stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.33 Cc: Tilman Schmidt tilman@imap.cc Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191202085610.12719-3-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/usb-gigaset.c | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/usb-gigaset.c b/drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/usb-gigaset.c index 5e393e7dde45..a84722d83bc6 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/usb-gigaset.c +++ b/drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset/usb-gigaset.c @@ -571,8 +571,7 @@ static int gigaset_initcshw(struct cardstate *cs) { struct usb_cardstate *ucs;

- cs->hw.usb = ucs = - kmalloc(sizeof(struct usb_cardstate), GFP_KERNEL); + cs->hw.usb = ucs = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usb_cardstate), GFP_KERNEL); if (!ucs) { pr_err("out of memory\n"); return -ENOMEM; @@ -584,9 +583,6 @@ static int gigaset_initcshw(struct cardstate *cs) ucs->bchars[3] = 0; ucs->bchars[4] = 0x11; ucs->bchars[5] = 0x13; - ucs->bulk_out_buffer = NULL; - ucs->bulk_out_urb = NULL; - ucs->read_urb = NULL; tasklet_init(&cs->write_tasklet, gigaset_modem_fill, (unsigned long) cs);