[PATCH v2] clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: fix resource leak on init error paths

Haotian Zhang vulab at iscas.ac.cn
Thu Oct 8 19:28:18 PDT 2026


mxc_timer_init_dt() maps the timer registers with of_iomap() and obtains
the ipg and per clocks with of_clk_get_by_name(), but every error path
jumps to err_kfree, which only frees the imx_timer structure.  The
ioremap'd mapping, the clock references and the mapping created by
irq_of_parse_and_map() are leaked when irq_of_parse_and_map() or
_mxc_timer_init() fails.

Release the ioremap mapping when irq_of_parse_and_map() fails, and drop
the clock references and the IRQ mapping when _mxc_timer_init() fails.

_mxc_timer_init() can fail after mxc_clocksource_init() has registered
the sched_clock and the clocksource, and after mxc_clockevent_init() has
registered the clock event device.  Those subsystems keep using
imxtm->base and imxtm, so neither the mapping nor imxtm itself may be
released on that path; request_irq() cannot have succeeded there, so
disposing the IRQ mapping is safe.

Fixes: 8051a993ce22 ("clocksource/drivers/timer-imx-gpt: Fix potential memory leak")
Assisted-by: DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Suggested-by: Frank Li <Frank.li at oss.nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Haotian Zhang <vulab at iscas.ac.cn>
---
Changes in v2:
 - Dispose the IRQ mapping and drop the clock references when
   _mxc_timer_init() fails, instead of leaking the IRQ mapping.
 - Do not unmap imxtm->base nor free imxtm on that path: the sched_clock,
   the clocksource and the clock event device may already have been
   registered and keep using them.

 drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c b/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
index 8335bd7f8c6c..8050f3b449ba 100644
--- a/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
+++ b/drivers/clocksource/timer-imx-gpt.c
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ static int __init mxc_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np,  enum imx_gpt_type t
 	imxtm->irq = irq_of_parse_and_map(np, 0);
 	if (imxtm->irq <= 0) {
 		ret = -EINVAL;
-		goto err_kfree;
+		goto err_unmap;
 	}
 
 	imxtm->clk_ipg = of_clk_get_by_name(np, "ipg");
@@ -455,12 +455,22 @@ static int __init mxc_timer_init_dt(struct device_node *np,  enum imx_gpt_type t
 
 	ret = _mxc_timer_init(imxtm);
 	if (ret)
-		goto err_kfree;
+		goto err_irq;
 
 	initialized = 1;
 
 	return 0;
 
+err_irq:
+	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(imxtm->clk_per))
+		clk_put(imxtm->clk_per);
+	if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(imxtm->clk_ipg))
+		clk_put(imxtm->clk_ipg);
+	irq_dispose_mapping(imxtm->irq);
+	return ret;
+
+err_unmap:
+	iounmap(imxtm->base);
 err_kfree:
 	kfree(imxtm);
 	return ret;
-- 
2.25.1




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