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Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS

From Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS
Date 2016-03-04 16:30 +0100
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Hi,

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 11:16:04AM -0800, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> On 03/03, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> > >         div = kzalloc(sizeof(*div), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > @@ -107,6 +111,8 @@ err_free_div:
> > >         kfree(div);
> > >  err_unmap:
> > >         iounmap(reg);
> > > +err_free_parents:
> > > +       kfree(parents);
> > 
> > AFAIK the CCF makes a deep copy of parents, so you should
> > always free it? I specifically checked it before using
> > VLAIS here.
> > 
> 
> Yes. Good catch. Here's the update.
> 
> --8<---
> From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> Subject: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS

VLAIS?

> Using an array allocated on the stack may lead to stack overflows
> and other problems. Furthermore, VLAIS doesn't work well with
> LLVM compilers, so move the allocation to the heap and avoid the
> use of VLAIS here.
> 
> Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun8i-mbus.c | 11 +++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun8i-mbus.c b/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun8i-mbus.c
> index 3aaa9cbef791..90acc8549d60 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun8i-mbus.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/sunxi/clk-sun8i-mbus.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(sun8i_a23_mbus_lock);
>  static void __init sun8i_a23_mbus_setup(struct device_node *node)
>  {
>  	int num_parents = of_clk_get_parent_count(node);
> -	const char *parents[num_parents];
> +	const char **parents;
>  	const char *clk_name = node->name;
>  	struct resource res;
>  	struct clk_divider *div;
> @@ -43,10 +43,14 @@ static void __init sun8i_a23_mbus_setup(struct device_node *node)
>  	void __iomem *reg;
>  	int err;
>  
> +	parents = kcalloc(num_parents, sizeof(*parents), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!parents)
> +		return;
> +
>  	reg = of_io_request_and_map(node, 0, of_node_full_name(node));
>  	if (!reg) {
>  		pr_err("Could not get registers for sun8i-mbus-clk\n");
> -		return;
> +		goto err_free_parents;
>  	}
>  
>  	div = kzalloc(sizeof(*div), GFP_KERNEL);
> @@ -90,6 +94,7 @@ static void __init sun8i_a23_mbus_setup(struct device_node *node)
>  	if (err)
>  		goto err_unregister_clk;
>  
> +	kfree(parents); /* parents is deep copied */
>  	/* The MBUS clocks needs to be always enabled */
>  	__clk_get(clk);
>  	clk_prepare_enable(clk);
> @@ -107,6 +112,8 @@ err_free_div:
>  	kfree(div);
>  err_unmap:
>  	iounmap(reg);
> +err_free_parents:
> +	kfree(parents);
>  	of_address_to_resource(node, 0, &res);
>  	release_mem_region(res.start, resource_size(&res));

The error path is wrong here, if you jump here from a failing call to
of_io_request_and_map, you'll end up releasing a memory region which
is not requested.

Thanks!
Maxime

-- 
Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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[PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-02 01:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> - 2016-03-03 19:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-03 20:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2016-03-04 16:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> - 2016-03-08 23:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] clk: sunxi: Remove use of VLAIS Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-03-15 23:20 +0100

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