Re: [PATCH] ep93xx: clock: Do not return the address of the freed memory

[Alexander Sverdlin]

Hello Genjian!

Thank you for the patch!

On 12/05/2022 09:59, Genjian Zhang wrote:
> Although there will be basic judgments of IS_ERR() on this return value
> elsewhere,but I think it can be replaced by the actual error return
> value of clk_register.

Actually this fixes very similar use-after-free which I missed in
commit 9645ccc7bd7a1.

I propose to add
Fixes: 9645ccc7bd7a1 ("ep93xx: clock: convert in-place to COMMON_CLK")

> Signed-off-by: Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c
> index 4fa6ea5461b7..762328de4bce 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/clock.c
> @@ -345,9 +345,10 @@ static struct clk_hw *clk_hw_register_ddiv(const char *name,
>  	psc->hw.init = &init;
>  
>  	clk = clk_register(NULL, &psc->hw);
> -	if (IS_ERR(clk))
> +	if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
>  		kfree(psc);
> -
> +		return (struct clk_hw *)clk;

Could you please use ERR_CAST()?

> +	}
>  	return &psc->hw;
>  }
>  
> @@ -452,9 +453,10 @@ static struct clk_hw *clk_hw_register_div(const char *name,
>  	psc->hw.init = &init;
>  
>  	clk = clk_register(NULL, &psc->hw);
> -	if (IS_ERR(clk))
> +	if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
>  		kfree(psc);
> -
> +		return (struct clk_hw *)clk;

same as above

> +	}
>  	return &psc->hw;
>  }
>