[PATCH] usb: gadget: Fix transceiver leak in pxa_udc_probe()

From: Wentao Liang

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 13:27:07 EST


When the device is probed from platform data instead of device tree,
pxa_udc_probe() takes a reference on the USB2 transceiver with
usb_get_phy(USB_PHY_TYPE_USB2). This reference is only released in
pxa_udc_remove(), but the error paths taken after the transceiver has
been acquired return directly: a failed D+ gpio lookup, a failed
devm_clk_get() or clk_prepare() call, a failed devm_request_irq() and
a failed usb_add_gadget_udc() or udc_enable() call all leak the
reference.

Route those error paths to the existing err label so that the
transceiver is put together with the clk_unprepare() cleanup. The put
is guarded by !of_have_populated_dt(), because in the device tree case
the reference is taken by devm_usb_get_phy_by_phandle() and released
by devres when the probe fails.

Fixes: 7fec3c25b773 ("USB: pxa27x_udc: add otg transceiver support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c | 13 +++++++++----
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c
index 1abea0d48c35..5f4f66e571f9 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/pxa27x_udc.c
@@ -2421,18 +2421,21 @@ static int pxa_udc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
if (IS_ERR(udc->gpiod)) {
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Couldn't find or request D+ gpio : %ld\n",
PTR_ERR(udc->gpiod));
- return PTR_ERR(udc->gpiod);
+ retval = PTR_ERR(udc->gpiod);
+ goto err;
}
if (udc->gpiod)
gpiod_direction_output(udc->gpiod, 0);

udc->clk = devm_clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
- if (IS_ERR(udc->clk))
- return PTR_ERR(udc->clk);
+ if (IS_ERR(udc->clk)) {
+ retval = PTR_ERR(udc->clk);
+ goto err;
+ }

retval = clk_prepare(udc->clk);
if (retval)
- return retval;
+ goto err;

udc->vbus_sensed = 0;

@@ -2471,6 +2474,8 @@ static int pxa_udc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
usb_unregister_notifier(udc->transceiver, &pxa27x_udc_phy);
err:
clk_unprepare(udc->clk);
+ if (!of_have_populated_dt() && !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(udc->transceiver))
+ usb_put_phy(udc->transceiver);
return retval;
}

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