[PATCH 04/20] i2c: viai2c-wmt: Fix clock leak in wmt_i2c_probe()

[Alexey Charkov]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2026 at 11:07 AM Wentao Liang <vulab at iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
>
> In wmt_i2c_probe(), i2c->clk is acquired using of_clk_get(). If any
> subsequent operation fails or when the module is unloaded, the clock
> reference count is never decremented via clk_put(), leading to a
> resource leak.
>
> Switch to devm_clk_get() so that the clock is automatically managed
> and released.
>
> Fixes: 560746eb79d3 ("i2c: vt8500: Add support for I2C bus on Wondermedia SoCs")
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab at iscas.ac.cn>
> ---
>  drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viai2c-wmt.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viai2c-wmt.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viai2c-wmt.c
> index 2cf3cc0165fb..74ca93b44347 100644
> --- a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viai2c-wmt.c
> +++ b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viai2c-wmt.c
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ static int wmt_i2c_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>                 return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, err,
>                                 "failed to request irq %i\n", i2c->irq);
>
> -       i2c->clk = of_clk_get(np, 0);
> +       i2c->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);

Maybe we could go for devm_clk_get_enabled and drop some more
boilerplate which follows in wmt_i2c_reset_hardware, while at it?

Backporting this to stable seems like a stretch to me, though (it's
quite old code, so there would be quite a lot of backporting for a
rarely hit resource leak).

Best regards,
Alexey