[PATCH] clk: stm32f4: avoid uninitialized variable access

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Wed Jan 11 05:40:52 PST 2017


The failure path in the newly added function tries to free an
uninitialized pointer:

drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c: In function 'stm32f4_rcc_init':
drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c:1106:4: error: 'gate' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized]

I'm adding an initialization to NULL here to make the kfree()
succeed, and I'm also rearranging the cleanup so that the
same kfree() is used for any error path, making the function
slightly more robust against newly introduced bugs in the
error handling.

Fixes: daf2d117cbca ("clk: stm32f4: Add lcd-tft clock")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
---
 drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c b/drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c
index 42f8534996de..4a3bb6e63525 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk-stm32f4.c
@@ -1080,7 +1080,7 @@ static struct clk_hw *stm32_register_aux_clk(const char *name,
 		unsigned long flags, spinlock_t *lock)
 {
 	struct clk_hw *hw;
-	struct clk_gate *gate;
+	struct clk_gate *gate = NULL;
 	struct clk_mux *mux = NULL;
 	struct clk_hw *mux_hw = NULL, *gate_hw = NULL;
 	const struct clk_ops *mux_ops = NULL, *gate_ops = NULL;
@@ -1103,7 +1103,6 @@ static struct clk_hw *stm32_register_aux_clk(const char *name,
 	if (offset_mux != NO_MUX) {
 		mux = kzalloc(sizeof(*mux), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!mux) {
-			kfree(gate);
 			hw = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 			goto fail;
 		}
@@ -1116,8 +1115,10 @@ static struct clk_hw *stm32_register_aux_clk(const char *name,
 		mux_ops = &clk_mux_ops;
 	}
 
-	if (mux_hw == NULL && gate_hw == NULL)
-		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+	if (mux_hw == NULL && gate_hw == NULL) {
+		hw = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+		goto fail;
+	}
 
 	hw = clk_hw_register_composite(NULL, name, parent_names, num_parents,
 			mux_hw, mux_ops,
@@ -1125,11 +1126,12 @@ static struct clk_hw *stm32_register_aux_clk(const char *name,
 			gate_hw, gate_ops,
 			flags);
 
+fail:
 	if (IS_ERR(hw)) {
 		kfree(gate);
 		kfree(mux);
 	}
-fail:
+
 	return hw;
 }
 
-- 
2.9.0




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