Re: [PATCH] clk: mediatek: mt6735: Unregister PLLs on probe failure

From: Brian Masney

Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 10:35:26 EST


Hi Myeonghun,

On Tue, Jun 23, 2026 at 06:41:11PM +0900, Myeonghun Pak wrote:
> mtk_clk_register_plls() registers the apmixedsys PLL clocks manually, while
> clk_mt6735_apmixed_remove() unregisters them on driver removal.
>
> If devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider() fails after the PLL registration succeeds,
> probe returns the error directly and the remove callback is not run. This
> leaves the registered PLL clocks behind on the probe failure path.
>
> Add an unregister_plls error path so provider registration failures unwind the
> PLLs before returning the error.

Please run your patches through checkpatch.pl before sending.

>
> Fixes: 43c04ed79189 ("clk: mediatek: Add drivers for MediaTek MT6735 main clock and reset drivers")
> Co-developed-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Ijae Kim <ae878000@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Myeonghun Pak <mhun512@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6735-apmixedsys.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6735-apmixedsys.c b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6735-apmixedsys.c
> index 9e30c089a2..04cf9665ec 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6735-apmixedsys.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/mediatek/clk-mt6735-apmixedsys.c
> @@ -102,10 +102,17 @@ static int clk_mt6735_apmixed_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>
> ret = devm_of_clk_add_hw_provider(&pdev->dev, of_clk_hw_onecell_get,
> clk_data);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret) {
> dev_err(&pdev->dev,
> "Failed to register clock provider: %d\n", ret);
> + goto unregister_plls;
> + }
> +
> + return 0;
>
> +unregister_plls:
> + mtk_clk_unregister_plls(apmixedsys_plls, ARRAY_SIZE(apmixedsys_plls),
> + clk_data);
> return ret;
> }

This fix is correct. Since only one path will encounter this, personally
I would just put the call to mtk_clk_unregister_plls() inside the if
statement above to simplify this further.

Brian