From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9ed331f8a0fb674f4f06edf05a1687bf755af27b upstream. While it might work, the current approach is fragile in a few ways: - whenever members in the structure are shuffled, the pointer will be wrong - the resource freeing may include more than covered by kfree() Fix this by using charlcd_free() call instead of kfree(). Fixes: 8c9108d014c5 ("auxdisplay: add a driver for lcd2s character display") Cc: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/auxdisplay/lcd2s.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/lcd2s.c +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/lcd2s.c @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ static int lcd2s_i2c_probe(struct i2c_cl return 0; fail1: - kfree(lcd); + charlcd_free(lcd2s->charlcd); return err; } @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int lcd2s_i2c_remove(struct i2c_c struct lcd2s_data *lcd2s = i2c_get_clientdata(i2c); charlcd_unregister(lcd2s->charlcd); - kfree(lcd2s->charlcd); + charlcd_free(lcd2s->charlcd); return 0; }