This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled clk: Fix memory leak in clk_unregister() to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: clk-fix-memory-leak-in-clk_unregister.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1eccd3bcfd1142d1a8de126ed1e14c4f533400d6 Author: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 22 12:41:53 2019 +0530 clk: Fix memory leak in clk_unregister() [ Upstream commit 8247470772beb38822f226c99a2ed8c195f6b438 ] Memory allocated in alloc_clk() for 'struct clk' and 'const char *con_id' while invoking clk_register() is never freed in clk_unregister(), resulting in kmemleak showing the following backtrace. backtrace: [<00000000546f5dd0>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x18c/0x270 [<0000000073a32862>] alloc_clk+0x30/0x70 [<0000000082942480>] __clk_register+0xc8/0x760 [<000000005c859fca>] devm_clk_register+0x54/0xb0 [<00000000868834a8>] 0xffff800008c60950 [<00000000d5a80534>] platform_drv_probe+0x50/0xa0 [<000000001b3889fc>] really_probe+0x108/0x348 [<00000000953fa60a>] driver_probe_device+0x58/0x100 [<0000000008acc17c>] device_driver_attach+0x6c/0x90 [<0000000022813df3>] __driver_attach+0x84/0xc8 [<00000000448d5443>] bus_for_each_dev+0x74/0xc8 [<00000000294aa93f>] driver_attach+0x20/0x28 [<00000000e5e52626>] bus_add_driver+0x148/0x1f0 [<000000001de21efc>] driver_register+0x60/0x110 [<00000000af07c068>] __platform_driver_register+0x40/0x48 [<0000000060fa80ee>] 0xffff800008c66020 Fix it here. Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx> Cc: Tero Kristo <t-kristo@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@xxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191022071153.21118-1-kishon@xxxxxx Fixes: 1df4046a93e0 ("clk: Combine __clk_get() and __clk_create_clk()") Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c index 1c677d7f7f53..2f2eea26c375 100644 --- a/drivers/clk/clk.c +++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c @@ -3879,6 +3879,7 @@ void clk_unregister(struct clk *clk) __func__, clk->core->name); kref_put(&clk->core->ref, __clk_release); + free_clk(clk); unlock: clk_prepare_unlock(); }