I moved the kfree() down a couple lines after the dereference. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c b/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c index 1db0097..abba22f 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c +++ b/drivers/staging/mrst-touchscreen/intel-mid-touch.c @@ -817,9 +817,9 @@ static int mrstouch_remove(struct spi_device *spi) free_irq(mrstouchdevp->irq, mrstouchdevp); input_unregister_device(mrstouchdevp->input); input_free_device(mrstouchdevp->input); - kfree(mrstouchdevp); if (mrstouchdevp->pendet_thrd) kthread_stop(mrstouchdevp->pendet_thrd); + kfree(mrstouchdevp); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html