[PATCH 6.6 092/254] Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open()

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-28T15:31:33Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[ Upstream commit 5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8 ]

If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the
pccontext we allocated for this clock.

Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.

Reported-by: Rohit Keshri <rkeshri@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Fixes: 60c6946675fc ("posix-clock: introduce posix_clock_context concept")
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Stable-dep-of: e859d375d169 ("posix-clock: Store file pointer in struct posix_clock_context")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
index 706559ed75793..a6487a9d60853 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
@@ -129,15 +129,17 @@ static int posix_clock_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *fp)
goto out;
}
pccontext->clk = clk;
- fp->private_data = pccontext;
- if (clk->ops.open)
+ if (clk->ops.open) {
err = clk->ops.open(pccontext, fp->f_mode);
- else
- err = 0;
-
- if (!err) {
- get_device(clk->dev);
+ if (err) {
+ kfree(pccontext);
+ goto out;
+ }
}
+
+ fp->private_data = pccontext;
+ get_device(clk->dev);
+ err = 0;
out:
up_read(&clk->rwsem);
return err;
--
2.51.0