linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clocksource: cadence_ttc: fix memory leak in ttc_setup

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Date:   Sat, 9 Mar 2019 15:24:08 +0100
From:   Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
To:     Yue Haibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, michal.simek@...inx.com,
        tglx@...utronix.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clocksource: cadence_ttc: fix memory leak in
 ttc_setup_clockevent


Hi Yue,

I appreciate the fix but usually we add a rollback for all the
operations done in the init function.

Please, migrate the init function to the timer-of API, so the rollback
will be automatically handled.

Example here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/clocksource/timer-sprd.c#n197

On 09/03/2019 14:19, Yue Haibing wrote:
> From: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> 
> Add the missing kfree() in ttc_setup_clockevent() to free the
> mem before error return.
> 
> Fixes: 70504f311d4b ("clocksource/drivers/cadence_ttc: Convert init function to return error")
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/clocksource/timer-cadence-ttc.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-cadence-ttc.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-cadence-ttc.c
> index b334029..b664af8 100644
> --- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-cadence-ttc.c
> +++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-cadence-ttc.c
> @@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static int __init ttc_setup_clockevent(struct clk *clk,
>  				    &ttcce->ttc.clk_rate_change_nb);
>  	if (err) {
>  		pr_warn("Unable to register clock notifier.\n");
> +		kfree(ttcce);
>  		return err;
>  	}
>  
> 


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