[PATCH v2 2/6] clk: mediatek: mt6795: fix memory leak on module removal

Akari Tsuyukusa akkun11.open at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 00:48:31 PDT 2026


clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c, clk-mt6795-infracfg.c and clk-mt6795-pericfg.c
do not call platform_set_drvdata() during their driver probe callback,
but their remove callback calls platform_get_drvdata().
This results in platform_get_drvdata() returning NULL, which leads to
calling kfree(NULL) in mtk_free_clk_data(NULL).
This leaves clk_data unreleased, causing a memory leak.

Fix this by calling platform_set_drvdata() during probe.

Fixes: 0d363282bb0c ("clk: mediatek: Add MediaTek Helio X10 MT6795 clock drivers")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Akari Tsuyukusa <akkun11.open at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c | 2 ++
 drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-infracfg.c   | 2 ++
 drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-pericfg.c    | 2 ++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c
index 123d5d7fea85..239a3f5e1760 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-apmixedsys.c
@@ -175,6 +175,8 @@ static int clk_mt6795_apmixed_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	dev_dbg(dev, "Performing initial setup for MD1\n");
 	clk_mt6795_apmixed_setup_md1(base);
 
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, clk_data);
+
 	return 0;
 
 unregister_ref2usb:
diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-infracfg.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-infracfg.c
index e4559569f5b0..914bb069aa85 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-infracfg.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-infracfg.c
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ static int clk_mt6795_infracfg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto unregister_cpumuxes;
 
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, clk_data);
+
 	return 0;
 
 unregister_cpumuxes:
diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-pericfg.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-pericfg.c
index d48240eb2a67..27d0ef7d7b2f 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-pericfg.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6795-pericfg.c
@@ -125,6 +125,8 @@ static int clk_mt6795_pericfg_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (ret)
 		goto unregister_composites;
 
+	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, clk_data);
+
 	return 0;
 
 unregister_composites:
-- 
2.54.0




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