[PATCH] mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_slc: fix GPIO descriptor leak on probe error and remove
Miquel Raynal
miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Tue Nov 4 00:27:51 PST 2025
Hello,
On 03/11/2025 at 18:21:47 +02, Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz at mleia.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/25 11:47, Haotian Zhang wrote:
>> The driver calls gpiod_get_optional() in the probe function but
>> never calls gpiod_put() in the remove function or in the probe
>> error path. This leads to a GPIO descriptor resource leak.
>> The lpc32xx_mlc.c driver in the same directory handles this
>> correctly by calling gpiod_put() on both paths.
>> Add gpiod_put() in the remove function and in the probe error path
>> to fix the resource leak.
>> Fixes: 6b923db2867c ("mtd: rawnand: lpc32xx_slc: switch to using gpiod
>> API")
>> Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang <vulab at iscas.ac.cn>
>
> The problem is well identified, thank you for the fix.
>
>> ---
>> drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
>> b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
>> index b54d76547ffb..fea3705a2138 100644
>> --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/raw/lpc32xx_slc.c
>> @@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ static int lpc32xx_nand_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> dma_release_channel(host->dma_chan);
>> enable_wp:
>> lpc32xx_wp_enable(host);
>> + gpiod_put(host->wp_gpio);
>> return res;
>> }
>> @@ -962,6 +963,7 @@ static void lpc32xx_nand_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>> writel(tmp, SLC_CTRL(host->io_base));
>> lpc32xx_wp_enable(host);
>> + gpiod_put(host->wp_gpio);
>> }
>> static int lpc32xx_nand_resume(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> The fix can be greatly improved though, I kindly ask you to send v2 by switching
> from gpiod_get_optional() to resource managed
> devm_gpiod_get_optional().
I've already applied this fix, however I will welcome a follow-up patch.
Thanks,
Miquèl
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