Re: [PATCH] clk: socfpga: Fix a memory leak bug in socfpga_gate_init()

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>]

Quoting Zhou Qingyang (2022-01-24 08:53:16)
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/socfpga/clk-gate.c b/drivers/clk/socfpga/clk-gate.c
> index 53d6e3ec4309..0ca5e0000925 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/socfpga/clk-gate.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/socfpga/clk-gate.c
> @@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ void __init socfpga_gate_init(struct device_node *node)
>                 return;
>  
>         ops = kmemdup(&gateclk_ops, sizeof(gateclk_ops), GFP_KERNEL);
> -       if (WARN_ON(!ops))
> +       if (WARN_ON(!ops)) {

A WARN_ON() after an allocation failure will lead to double stacktraces.
Can you remove the WARN_ON()?

Furthermore, it looks like 'ops' is never freed on failure in this
function. Did the SA tool figure that out? There are more problems with
this function and error paths. Seems like nobody cares.

> +               kfree(socfpga_clk);
>                 return;
> +       }
>