The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x 9b98a7d2e5f4e2beeff88f6571da0cdc5883c7fb # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025041714-projector-suffix-41d5@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 9b98a7d2e5f4e2beeff88f6571da0cdc5883c7fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:15:27 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] auxdisplay: hd44780: Fix an API misuse in hd44780.c

Variable allocated by charlcd_alloc() should be released by charlcd_free(). The following patch changed kfree() to charlcd_free() to fix an API misuse.

Fixes: 718e05ed92ec ("auxdisplay: Introduce hd44780_common.[ch]") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li haoxiang_li2024@163.com Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c index 0526f0d90a79..9d0ae9c02e9b 100644 --- a/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c +++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/hd44780.c @@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static int hd44780_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) fail3: kfree(hd); fail2: - kfree(lcd); + charlcd_free(lcd); fail1: kfree(hdc); return ret; @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static void hd44780_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) kfree(hdc->hd44780); kfree(lcd->drvdata);

- kfree(lcd); + charlcd_free(lcd); }

static const struct of_device_id hd44780_of_match[] = {