On success nvmem_cell_read() returns a pointer to a dynamically allocated buffer, and therefore it shall be freed after usage. The issue is reported by kmemleak: # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffff3b3803e4b280 (size 128): comm "kworker/u16:1", pid 107, jiffies 4294892861 (age 94.120s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<000000007739afdc>] __kmalloc+0x27c/0x41c [<0000000071c0fbf8>] nvmem_cell_read+0x40/0xe0 [<00000000e803ef1f>] qusb2_phy_init+0x258/0x5bc [<00000000fc81fcfa>] phy_init+0x70/0x110 [<00000000e3d48a57>] dwc3_core_soft_reset+0x4c/0x234 [<0000000027d1dbd4>] dwc3_core_init+0x68/0x990 [<000000001965faf9>] dwc3_probe+0x4f4/0x730 [<000000002f7617ca>] platform_probe+0x74/0xf0 [<00000000a2576cac>] really_probe+0xc4/0x470 [<00000000bc77f2c5>] __driver_probe_device+0x11c/0x190 [<00000000130db71f>] driver_probe_device+0x48/0x110 [<0000000019f36c2b>] __device_attach_driver+0xa4/0x140 [<00000000e5812ff7>] bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xe0 [<00000000f4bac574>] __device_attach+0xe4/0x1c0 [<00000000d3beb631>] device_initial_probe+0x20/0x30 [<000000008019b9db>] bus_probe_device+0xa4/0xb0 Fixes: ca04d9d3e1b1 ("phy: qcom-qusb2: New driver for QUSB2 PHY on Qcom chips") Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir.zapolskiy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes from v1 to v2: * fixed a memory leak in case of reading a zero value and return, * corrected the fixed commit, the memory leak is present before a rename. drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qusb2.c | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qusb2.c b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qusb2.c index 3c1d3b71c825..f1d97fbd1331 100644 --- a/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qusb2.c +++ b/drivers/phy/qualcomm/phy-qcom-qusb2.c @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ static void qusb2_phy_set_tune2_param(struct qusb2_phy *qphy) { struct device *dev = &qphy->phy->dev; const struct qusb2_phy_cfg *cfg = qphy->cfg; - u8 *val; + u8 *val, hstx_trim; /* efuse register is optional */ if (!qphy->cell) @@ -575,7 +575,13 @@ static void qusb2_phy_set_tune2_param(struct qusb2_phy *qphy) * set while configuring the phy. */ val = nvmem_cell_read(qphy->cell, NULL); - if (IS_ERR(val) || !val[0]) { + if (IS_ERR(val)) { + dev_dbg(dev, "failed to read a valid hs-tx trim value\n"); + return; + } + hstx_trim = val[0]; + kfree(val); + if (!hstx_trim) { dev_dbg(dev, "failed to read a valid hs-tx trim value\n"); return; } @@ -583,12 +589,10 @@ static void qusb2_phy_set_tune2_param(struct qusb2_phy *qphy) /* Fused TUNE1/2 value is the higher nibble only */ if (cfg->update_tune1_with_efuse) qusb2_write_mask(qphy->base, cfg->regs[QUSB2PHY_PORT_TUNE1], - val[0] << HSTX_TRIM_SHIFT, - HSTX_TRIM_MASK); + hstx_trim << HSTX_TRIM_SHIFT, HSTX_TRIM_MASK); else qusb2_write_mask(qphy->base, cfg->regs[QUSB2PHY_PORT_TUNE2], - val[0] << HSTX_TRIM_SHIFT, - HSTX_TRIM_MASK); + hstx_trim << HSTX_TRIM_SHIFT, HSTX_TRIM_MASK); } static int qusb2_phy_set_mode(struct phy *phy, -- 2.33.0