[PATCH] clk: moxart: fix refcount leak

Alexander A. Klimov grandmaster at al2klimov.de
Wed May 20 21:16:38 PDT 2026



On 5/21/26 00:29, Brian Masney wrote:
> Hi Alexander,
> 
> On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 07:55:50PM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
>> Every value returned from of_clk_get() is supposed to be cleaned up
>> via clk_put() once not needed anymore.
>> The values here are used only for error checking,
>> but weren't cleaned up until now.
>>
>> Fixes: c7bb4fc16ead ("clk: add MOXA ART SoCs clock driver")
>> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster at al2klimov.de>
>> ---
>>   drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c b/drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c
>> index 3786a0153ad1..7e191b1481bb 100644
>> --- a/drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c
>> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-moxart.c
>> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ static void __init moxart_of_pll_clk_init(struct device_node *node)
>>   		pr_err("%pOF: of_clk_get failed\n", node);
>>   		return;
>>   	}
>> +	clk_put(ref_clk);
>>   
>>   	hw = clk_hw_register_fixed_factor(NULL, name, parent_name, 0, mul, 1);
>>   	if (IS_ERR(hw)) {
>> @@ -83,6 +84,7 @@ static void __init moxart_of_apb_clk_init(struct device_node *node)
>>   		pr_err("%pOF: of_clk_get failed\n", node);
>>   		return;
>>   	}
>> +	clk_put(pll_clk);
> 
> So this immediately drops the reference to the clk after of_clk_get() is
> called. Can we just remove these two of_clk_get() calls since they don't
> appear to be used?
Not if their purpose is to... idk...
check whether device_node is a clock at all, maybe?



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