[PATCH] mmc: sunxi: fix clock and runtime PM leaks on probe failure

From: Anfernee Cao

Date: Tue Oct 20 2026 - 12:06:28 EST


sunxi_mmc_resource_request() enables the bus, card, output and sample
clocks before returning. Several failure paths later in
sunxi_mmc_probe() leave them running:

- If devm_request_threaded_irq() fails, the clocks enabled by
sunxi_mmc_enable() are never disabled.
- If dma_alloc_coherent(), mmc_of_parse() or sunxi_mmc_init_host()
fails, probe only frees the DMA buffer and the mmc_host.
- If mmc_add_host() fails, runtime PM has already been enabled, but
pm_runtime_disable() is never called.

Besides leaking the clocks, this leaves the clock enable counts
unbalanced, so a reprobe (for example after -EPROBE_DEFER) calls
clk_prepare_enable() on the same clocks again.

Disable the IRQ and the clocks in the probe error path, and disable
runtime PM on the mmc_add_host() failure path. Also handle a failure of
devm_request_threaded_irq() in sunxi_mmc_resource_request().

Tested with QEMU's orangepi-pc machine: with forced sunxi_mmc_init_host()
and mmc_add_host() failures the MMC clocks stay disabled in clk_summary,
and a normal probe with an emulated SD card still works.

This issue was found by manual code inspection.

Fixes: 3cbcb16095f9 ("mmc: sunxi: Add driver for SD/MMC hosts found on Allwinner sunxi SoCs")
Fixes: 9a8e1e8cc2c0 ("mmc: sunxi: Add runtime_pm support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.18+
Signed-off-by: Anfernee Cao <anferneemelokc5@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c b/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
index fe4c0f6d73f3..437fdadb5950 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/host/sunxi-mmc.c
@@ -1354,8 +1354,13 @@ static int sunxi_mmc_resource_request(struct sunxi_mmc_host *host,
goto error_disable_mmc;
}

- return devm_request_threaded_irq(&pdev->dev, host->irq, sunxi_mmc_irq,
- sunxi_mmc_handle_manual_stop, 0, "sunxi-mmc", host);
+ ret = devm_request_threaded_irq(&pdev->dev, host->irq, sunxi_mmc_irq,
+ sunxi_mmc_handle_manual_stop, 0,
+ "sunxi-mmc", host);
+ if (ret)
+ goto error_disable_mmc;
+
+ return 0;

error_disable_mmc:
sunxi_mmc_disable(host);
@@ -1385,9 +1390,11 @@ static int sunxi_mmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

host->sg_cpu = dma_alloc_coherent(&pdev->dev, PAGE_SIZE,
&host->sg_dma, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!host->sg_cpu)
- return dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, -ENOMEM,
- "Failed to allocate DMA descriptor mem\n");
+ if (!host->sg_cpu) {
+ ret = dev_err_probe(&pdev->dev, -ENOMEM,
+ "Failed to allocate DMA descriptor mem\n");
+ goto error_disable_mmc;
+ }

if (host->cfg->ccu_has_timings_switch) {
/*
@@ -1467,7 +1474,7 @@ static int sunxi_mmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

ret = mmc_add_host(mmc);
if (ret)
- goto error_free_dma;
+ goto error_disable_rpm;

dev_info(&pdev->dev, "initialized, max. request size: %u KB%s\n",
mmc->max_req_size >> 10,
@@ -1475,8 +1482,13 @@ static int sunxi_mmc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

return 0;

+error_disable_rpm:
+ pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
error_free_dma:
dma_free_coherent(&pdev->dev, PAGE_SIZE, host->sg_cpu, host->sg_dma);
+error_disable_mmc:
+ disable_irq(host->irq);
+ sunxi_mmc_disable(host);
return ret;
}

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2.54.0.windows.1