[PATCH v2] auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix potential memory leak in hd44780_remove()

From: Jianglei Nie
Date: Mon Nov 28 2022 - 04:00:24 EST


hd44780_probe() allocates a memory chunk for hd with kzalloc() and
makes "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" point to it. When we call hd44780_remove(),
we should release all relevant memory and resource. But "lcd->drvdata
->hd44780" is not released, which will lead to a memory leak.

We should release the "lcd->drvdata->hd44780" in hd44780_remove() to fix
the memory leak bug.

Fixes: 41c8d0adf3c4 ("auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix memory leak on ->remove()")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
index 8b2a0eb3f32a..f4800a946bd8 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c
@@ -322,8 +322,10 @@ static int hd44780_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
static int hd44780_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
{
struct charlcd *lcd = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
+ struct hd44780_common *hdc = (struct hd44780_common *)lcd->drvdata;

charlcd_unregister(lcd);
+ kfree(hdc->hd44780);
kfree(lcd->drvdata);

kfree(lcd);
--
2.25.1