[PATCH 1/3] auxdisplay: ht16k33: do not try to free fbdev

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Jan 31 2017 - 15:55:11 EST


'fbdev' is allocated as part of larger ht16k33_priv structure; trying to
free it will cause troubles.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
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Note that the patches have not been tried on a real hardware.

I am pretty confident in #1 and #3, but #2 is larger and it would be great
if someone with hardware tried running it before it gets applied.

Thanks!

drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c
index eeb323f56c07..f2f304b3f061 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static int ht16k33_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
fbdev->buffer = (unsigned char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fbdev->buffer) {
err = -ENOMEM;
- goto err_free_fbdev;
+ goto err_destroy_wq;
}

fbdev->cache = devm_kmalloc(&client->dev, HT16K33_FB_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -510,8 +510,6 @@ static int ht16k33_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
framebuffer_release(fbdev->info);
err_fbdev_buffer:
free_page((unsigned long) fbdev->buffer);
-err_free_fbdev:
- kfree(fbdev);
err_destroy_wq:
destroy_workqueue(priv->workqueue);

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2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog