Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Blumenstingl <> | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:39:57 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] clk: meson: meson8b: fix a memory leak in meson8b_clkc_init_common() |
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Hello,
first of all: thank you for this patch!
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:28 AM <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com> wrote: > > From: Xiaoke Wang <xkernel.wang@foxmail.com> > > `rstc` is allocated by kzalloc() for resetting the controller register, > however, if reset_controller_register() fails, `rstc` is not properly > released before returning, which can lead to memory leak. > Therefore, this patch adds kfree(rstc) on the above error path. In general I am fine with this approach. There's some more "return" statements below. Should these be covered as well?
Also a note about meson8b_clkc_init_common() itself: failures in that function will result in a non-working system. If we can't register the reset controller then most devices won't probe and CPU SMP cannot work. If registering any clock or the clock controller doesn't work then the system also won't work as clocks are not available to other drivers. So freeing memory in case of an error is good to have, but the end result is still the same: the system won't work.
Best regards, Martin
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