[PATCH] i3c: master: renesas: Fix memory leak in renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers()

From: Felix Gu

Date: Thu Apr 02 2026 - 09:12:19 EST


The xfer structure allocated by renesas_i3c_alloc_xfer() was never freed
in the renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers() function. Use the __free(kfree) cleanup
attribute to automatically free the memory when the variable goes out of
scope.

Fixes: d028219a9f14 ("i3c: master: Add basic driver for the Renesas I3C controller")
Signed-off-by: Felix Gu <ustc.gu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c b/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
index d9f5b30a4b2f..11f2d6f7c701 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
@@ -817,13 +817,12 @@ static int renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers(struct i3c_dev_desc *dev, struct i3c_xfer *i3c_
struct i3c_master_controller *m = i3c_dev_get_master(dev);
struct renesas_i3c *i3c = to_renesas_i3c(m);
struct renesas_i3c_i2c_dev_data *data = i3c_dev_get_master_data(dev);
- struct renesas_i3c_xfer *xfer;
int i;

/* Enable I3C bus. */
renesas_i3c_bus_enable(m, true);

- xfer = renesas_i3c_alloc_xfer(i3c, 1);
+ struct renesas_i3c_xfer *xfer __free(kfree) = renesas_i3c_alloc_xfer(i3c, 1);
if (!xfer)
return -ENOMEM;


---
base-commit: bd0f139e5fc11182777b81cefc3893ea508544ec
change-id: 20260402-renesas-c6afdaf9bc2e

Best regards,
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Felix Gu <ustc.gu@xxxxxxxxx>