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From: "Manush Prajwal" <manushprajwal555@gmail.com>
To: conor.dooley@microchip.com, daire.mcnamara@microchip.com,
	alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Cc: linux-rtc@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rtc: mpfs: fix unchecked devm_clk_get() error pointer in probe()
Date: 6 Sep 2026 16:44:09 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a9d4b02.7d74b517.206c4c.75f8@mx.google.com> (raw)

devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "rtcref")'s return value was passed straight
into clk_get_rate() without checking it for an error first, unlike the
"rtc" clock a few lines above which is correctly checked with
IS_ERR(). clk_get_rate() only guards against a NULL clk, not an error
pointer:

	if (!clk)
		return 0;
	...
	rate = clk_core_get_rate_recalc(clk->core);

so if devm_clk_get() ever returns an error pointer here (for example
ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER), which is the normal, expected outcome if the
clkcfg clock-provider this RTC depends on has not registered its
clocks yet by the time this driver probes), clk_get_rate() dereferences
that error pointer instead of returning 0, crashing instead of letting
probe defer.

Capture the clock in the existing 'clk' local and check it with
IS_ERR() before calling clk_get_rate(), matching the handling already
used for the "rtc" clock in this same function.

Signed-off-by: Manush Prajwal <manushprajwal555@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/rtc/rtc-mpfs.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mpfs.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mpfs.c
index ece6de4a6..60596b0ea 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-mpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-mpfs.c
@@ -256,8 +256,12 @@ static int mpfs_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		return ret;
 	}
 
+	clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "rtcref");
+	if (IS_ERR(clk))
+		return PTR_ERR(clk);
+
 	/* prescaler hardware adds 1 to reg value */
-	prescaler = clk_get_rate(devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, "rtcref")) - 1;
+	prescaler = clk_get_rate(clk) - 1;
 	if (prescaler > MAX_PRESCALER_COUNT) {
 		dev_dbg(&pdev->dev, "invalid prescaler %lu\n", prescaler);
 		return -EINVAL;
-- 
2.46.2.windows.1



             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-06 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-06 11:14 Manush Prajwal [this message]
2026-09-06 11:18 ` [PATCH] rtc: mpfs: fix unchecked devm_clk_get() error pointer in probe() sashiko-bot

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