soc: xilinx: vcu: issue with 2nd null check on pointer divider

[Colin King (gmail)]

Hi Michael,

thanks for the update, I forgot I already reported this back in 2021(!). 
Perhaps the upstream folk can apply your patch oneday :-/

Colin

On 08/05/2025 11:57, Michael Tretter wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> On Thu, 08 May 2025 11:21:05 +0100, Colin King (gmail) wrote:
>> There seems to be an issue with the following function with the second check
>> on if (!divider). Firstly this is redundant code since divider has
>> already been null checked, so I suspect it should be instead if (!mux) but
>> I'm unsure if this is correct since the call to clk_hw_unregister_divider is
>> not made.  Also if mux is null, isn't the call to clk_hw_unregister_mux()
>> problematic as a null pointer is being passed to it.
>>
>> static void xvcu_clk_hw_unregister_leaf(struct clk_hw *hw)
>> {
>>          struct clk_hw *gate = hw;
>>          struct clk_hw *divider;
>>          struct clk_hw *mux;
>>
>>          if (!gate)
>>                  return;
>>
>>          divider = clk_hw_get_parent(gate);
>>          clk_hw_unregister_gate(gate);
>>          if (!divider)
>>                  return;
>>
>>          mux = clk_hw_get_parent(divider);
>>          clk_hw_unregister_mux(mux);
>>          if (!divider)
>>                  return;
>>
>>          clk_hw_unregister_divider(divider);
>> }
> 
> I sent a patch [0] to rewrite the function and make it more readable a
> while ago. Unfortunately, there wasn't any reaction to the patch, and
> then I forgot about it.
> 
> Michael
> 
> [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210318144230.3438009-1-m.tretter@pengutronix.de/

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