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From: Brian Masney <bmasney@redhat.com>
To: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
Cc: andrew@lunn.ch, gregory.clement@bootlin.com,
	sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com, mturquette@baylibre.com,
	sboyd@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: mvebu: ap-cpu: fix missing clk_put() in ap_cpu_clock_probe()
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:18:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ajAzzZQijess8tZf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260604025115.3763823-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn>

On Thu, Jun 04, 2026 at 02:51:15AM +0000, Wentao Liang wrote:
> The function ap_cpu_clock_probe() calls of_clk_get() to obtain a
> reference to the parent clock for each CPU cluster, but it never
> releases it with clk_put().  The returned clk is used only to read
> the parent's name via __clk_get_name(), and the reference is leaked
> on every successful cluster initialization as well as on the error
> path when devm_clk_hw_register() fails.
> 
> Add the missing clk_put() after the name has been extracted and
> before returning on error to fix the leak.
> 
> Fixes: af9617b419f7 ("clk: mvebu: ap-cpu-clk: Fix a memory leak in error handling paths")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>

This calls:

                parent = of_clk_get(np, cluster_index);
                if (IS_ERR(parent)) {
			...
                }
                parent_name =  __clk_get_name(parent);

Can this all be replaced with a call to of_clk_get_parent_name() ?

Brian



      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-06-15 17:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-04  2:51 [PATCH] clk: mvebu: ap-cpu: fix missing clk_put() in ap_cpu_clock_probe() Wentao Liang
2026-06-04  3:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2026-06-15 17:18 ` Brian Masney [this message]

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