[PATCH] clk: mvebu/clk-cpu.c: fix memory leakage

[Cong Ding]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 03:13:00PM +0100, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Dear Cong Ding,
> 
> On 01/14/2013 06:18 PM, Cong Ding wrote:
> > the variable cpuclk and clk_name should be properly freed.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for reporting this memory leak and for your patch but I think
> we could do even better, see below:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Cong Ding <dinggnu at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c |    9 ++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c b/drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c
> > index ff004578..1a0d84f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c
> > @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ void __init of_cpu_clk_setup(struct device_node *node)
> >  
> >  	clks = kzalloc(ncpus * sizeof(*clks), GFP_KERNEL);
> >  	if (WARN_ON(!clks))
> > -		return;
> > +		goto clks_out;
> >  
> >  	for_each_node_by_type(dn, "cpu") {
> >  		struct clk_init_data init;
> > @@ -134,11 +134,11 @@ void __init of_cpu_clk_setup(struct device_node *node)
> >  		int cpu, err;
> >  
> >  		if (WARN_ON(!clk_name))
> > -			return;
> > +			goto clk_name_out;
> 
> I agree
> 
> >  
> >  		err = of_property_read_u32(dn, "reg", &cpu);
> >  		if (WARN_ON(err))
> > -			return;
> > +			goto bail_out;
> 
> I agree
> 
> >  
> >  		sprintf(clk_name, "cpu%d", cpu);
> >  		parent_clk = of_clk_get(node, 0);
> > @@ -166,7 +166,10 @@ void __init of_cpu_clk_setup(struct device_node *node)
> >  
> >  	return;
> >  bail_out:
> > +	kfree(clk_name);
> 
> Here you free only one clk_name whereas we could have previous clk_name which have
> been already allocated during the for_each_node_by_type loop.
> 
> A more annoying thing is that you use clk_name whereas it is only valid in the
> for_each_node_by_type statement and then this patch breaks the compilation:
> 
> drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c: In function ‘of_cpu_clk_setup’:
> drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c:169:8: error: ‘clk_name’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> drivers/clk/mvebu/clk-cpu.c:169:8: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
sorry for the mistake, I am sending version 2.

thanks,
- cong