This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled MIPS: Alchemy: Fix memleak in alchemy_clk_setup_cpu to the 5.9-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: mips-alchemy-fix-memleak-in-alchemy_clk_setup_cpu.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit ea5572642598408cf0d7460df6c940247df7bb69 Author: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 13 21:18:56 2020 +0800 MIPS: Alchemy: Fix memleak in alchemy_clk_setup_cpu [ Upstream commit ac3b57adf87ad9bac7e33ca26bbbb13fae1ed62b ] If the clk_register fails, we should free h before function returns to prevent memleak. Fixes: 474402291a0ad ("MIPS: Alchemy: clock framework integration of onchip clocks") Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhang Qilong <zhangqilong3@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c b/arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c index a95a894aceaf1..f0c8303371047 100644 --- a/arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c +++ b/arch/mips/alchemy/common/clock.c @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ static struct clk __init *alchemy_clk_setup_cpu(const char *parent_name, { struct clk_init_data id; struct clk_hw *h; + struct clk *clk; h = kzalloc(sizeof(*h), GFP_KERNEL); if (!h) @@ -164,7 +165,13 @@ static struct clk __init *alchemy_clk_setup_cpu(const char *parent_name, id.ops = &alchemy_clkops_cpu; h->init = &id; - return clk_register(NULL, h); + clk = clk_register(NULL, h); + if (IS_ERR(clk)) { + pr_err("failed to register clock\n"); + kfree(h); + } + + return clk; } /* AUXPLLs ************************************************************/