[PATCH] drm/aspeed: Balance the display clock enable on teardown

Myeonghun Pak mhun512 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 15:30:19 PDT 2026


aspeed_gfx_load() enables the display clock without checking the return
value and never disables it on probe failure or removal. devm_clk_get()
only releases the clock reference, leaving the enable unbalanced.

Use devm_clk_get_enabled() to handle enable failures and automatically
disable and unprepare the clock on probe failure or removal.

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research
while reviewing kernel code.

Fixes: 4f2a8f5898ec ("drm: Add ASPEED GFX driver")
Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512 at gmail.com>
Assisted-by: OpenAI:GPT-5.6
---
Validated with an ARM64 W=1 object build and strict checkpatch.
No hardware runtime, clock-failure injection or unbind testing was done.

 drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/aspeed_gfx_drv.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/aspeed_gfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/aspeed_gfx_drv.c
index d4577663a..aa36b79d0 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/aspeed_gfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/aspeed/aspeed_gfx_drv.c
@@ -189,13 +189,12 @@ static int aspeed_gfx_load(struct drm_device *drm)
 	}
 	reset_control_deassert(priv->rst);
 
-	priv->clk = devm_clk_get(drm->dev, NULL);
+	priv->clk = devm_clk_get_enabled(drm->dev, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(priv->clk)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev,
-			"missing or invalid clk device tree entry");
+			"failed to get and enable clock\n");
 		return PTR_ERR(priv->clk);
 	}
-	clk_prepare_enable(priv->clk);
 
 	/* Sanitize control registers */
 	writel(0, priv->base + CRT_CTRL1);



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