[PATCH v3 1/2] i3c: master: renesas: Fix memory leak in renesas_i3c_i3c_xfers()

From: Felix Gu

Date: Mon Apr 06 2026 - 08:43:36 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")
Tested-by: Tommaso Merciai <tommaso.merciai.xr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Tommaso Merciai <tommaso.merciai.xr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Frank Li <Frank.Li@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Felix Gu <ustc.gu@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c b/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
index d9f5b30a4b2f..a8a9e89a9710 100644
--- a/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
+++ b/drivers/i3c/master/renesas-i3c.c
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@

#include <linux/bitfield.h>
#include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/clk.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/err.h>
@@ -817,13 +818,12 @@ 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;


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