[PATCH] clk: mediatek: Fix memory leak on clock init fail

James Liao jamesjj.liao at mediatek.com
Fri Jan 8 00:15:33 PST 2016


mtk_clk_register_composite() may leak memory due to some error
handling path don't free all allocated memory. This patch
free all pointers that may allocate memory before error return.
And it's safe because kfree() can handle NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: James Liao <jamesjj.liao at mediatek.com>
---
 drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c
index cf08db6..3528303 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mtk.c
@@ -209,12 +209,14 @@ struct clk * __init mtk_clk_register_composite(const struct mtk_composite *mc,
 		mc->flags);
 
 	if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
-		kfree(gate);
-		kfree(mux);
+		ret = PTR_ERR(clk);
+		goto err_out;
 	}
 
 	return clk;
 err_out:
+	kfree(div);
+	kfree(gate);
 	kfree(mux);
 
 	return ERR_PTR(ret);
-- 
1.9.1




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