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-rw-r--r--drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
index 1cce409ce5ca..e33ce0151cdf 100644
--- a/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
+++ b/drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c
@@ -280,6 +280,16 @@ static int img_ascii_lcd_display(struct img_ascii_lcd_ctx *ctx,
if (msg[count - 1] == '\n')
count--;
+ if (!count) {
+ /* clear the LCD */
+ devm_kfree(&ctx->pdev->dev, ctx->message);
+ ctx->message = NULL;
+ ctx->message_len = 0;
+ memset(ctx->curr, ' ', ctx->cfg->num_chars);
+ ctx->cfg->update(ctx);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
new_msg = devm_kmalloc(&ctx->pdev->dev, count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!new_msg)
return -ENOMEM;