This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove()
to the 5.0-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:
auxdisplay-hd44780-fix-memory-leak-on-remove.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 354b64ac73aa1b13774169e87a08b0e3d2fc8a55
Author: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Mar 12 16:44:28 2019 +0200
auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove()
[ Upstream commit 41c8d0adf3c4df1867d98cee4a2c4531352a33ad ]
We have to free on ->remove() the allocated resources on ->probe().
Fixes: d47d88361fee ("auxdisplay: Add HD44780 Character LCD support")
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
index 9ad93ea42fdc..3cde351fb5c9 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
@@ -280,6 +280,8 @@ static int hd44780_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
struct charlcd *lcd = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
charlcd_unregister(lcd);
+
+ kfree(lcd);
return 0;
}
