[PATCH] clk: samsung: exynos-clkout: Assign .num before accessing .hws

Sam Protsenko semen.protsenko at linaro.org
Mon Nov 24 12:51:42 PST 2025


On Mon, Nov 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Commit f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with
> __counted_by") annotated the hws member of 'struct clk_hw_onecell_data'
> with __counted_by, which informs the bounds sanitizer (UBSAN_BOUNDS)
> about the number of elements in .hws[], so that it can warn when .hws[]
> is accessed out of bounds. As noted in that change, the __counted_by
> member must be initialized with the number of elements before the first
> array access happens, otherwise there will be a warning from each access
> prior to the initialization because the number of elements is zero. This
> occurs in exynos_clkout_probe() due to .num being assigned after .hws[]
> has been accessed:
>
>   UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c:178:18
>   index 0 is out of range for type 'clk_hw *[*]'
>
> Move the .num initialization to before the first access of .hws[],
> clearing up the warning.
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: f316cdff8d67 ("clk: Annotate struct clk_hw_onecell_data with __counted_by")
> Reported-by: Jochen Sprickerhof <jochen at sprickerhof.de>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/aSIYDN5eyKFKoXKL@eldamar.lan/
> Tested-by: Jochen Sprickerhof <jochen at sprickerhof.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko at linaro.org>

>  drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c
> index 5f1a4f5e2e59..5b21025338bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/samsung/clk-exynos-clkout.c
> @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static int exynos_clkout_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         clkout->mux.shift = EXYNOS_CLKOUT_MUX_SHIFT;
>         clkout->mux.lock = &clkout->slock;
>
> +       clkout->data.num = EXYNOS_CLKOUT_NR_CLKS;
>         clkout->data.hws[0] = clk_hw_register_composite(NULL, "clkout",
>                                 parent_names, parent_count, &clkout->mux.hw,
>                                 &clk_mux_ops, NULL, NULL, &clkout->gate.hw,
> @@ -185,7 +186,6 @@ static int exynos_clkout_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 goto err_unmap;
>         }
>
> -       clkout->data.num = EXYNOS_CLKOUT_NR_CLKS;
>         ret = of_clk_add_hw_provider(clkout->np, of_clk_hw_onecell_get, &clkout->data);
>         if (ret)
>                 goto err_clk_unreg;
>
> ---
> base-commit: b6430552c8cd95e90bb842ce2f421e7a5381859f
> change-id: 20251124-exynos-clkout-fix-ubsan-bounds-error-93071375ec78
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
>
>



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