Re: [PATCH] gpio: pxa: use devres for the clock struct
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Aug 26 2022 - 04:21:04 EST
On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 12:15 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 12:26 PM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The clock is never released after probe(). Use devres to not leak
> > resources.
>
> ...
>
> > - clk = clk_get(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> > + clk = devm_clk_get_enabled(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> > if (IS_ERR(clk)) {
> > dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Error %ld to get gpio clock\n",
> > PTR_ERR(clk));
> > return PTR_ERR(clk);
>
> Shouldn't we fix a potential log saturation issue first (by switching
> to use dev_err_probe() helper)?
Can be a separate patch, the clock mem leak is a bigger problem
IMO so this should be applied first.
Hm isn't it possible to toss the task of fixing a gazillion
dev_err_probe() messages on Cocinelle scripts/coccinelle/? I bet it's something
the kernel janitors could fix all over the place.
Yours,
Linus Walleij