[PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()

Haoxiang Li posted 1 patch 3 weeks, 3 days ago
drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()
Posted by Haoxiang Li 3 weeks, 3 days ago
If clk_register() fails, call kfree to release "tegra".

Fixes: 2db04f16b589 ("clk: tegra: Add EMC clock driver")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
---
 drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
index 2a6db0434281..0f6fb776b229 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
@@ -538,8 +538,10 @@ struct clk *tegra124_clk_register_emc(void __iomem *base, struct device_node *np
 	tegra->hw.init = &init;
 
 	clk = clk_register(NULL, &tegra->hw);
-	if (IS_ERR(clk))
+	if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
+		kfree(tegra);
 		return clk;
+	}
 
 	tegra->prev_parent = clk_hw_get_parent_by_index(
 		&tegra->hw, emc_get_parent(&tegra->hw))->clk;
-- 
2.25.1
Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()
Posted by Thierry Reding 3 weeks, 2 days ago
From: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>


On Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:05:42 +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
> If clk_register() fails, call kfree to release "tegra".
> 
> 

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()
      commit: fce0d0bd9c20fefd180ea9e8362d619182f97a1d

Best regards,
-- 
Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()
Posted by Brian Masney 3 weeks, 2 days ago
On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 01:05:42PM +0800, Haoxiang Li wrote:
> If clk_register() fails, call kfree to release "tegra".
> 
> Fixes: 2db04f16b589 ("clk: tegra: Add EMC clock driver")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>

Reviewed-by: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: Fix potential memory leak in tegra124_clk_register_emc()
Posted by Markus Elfring 3 weeks, 3 days ago
> If clk_register() fails, call kfree to release "tegra".
                                     ()?

How do you think about to avoid a bit of duplicate source code here?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst?h=v6.19-rc5#n526

Regards,
Markus