AW: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() when iterating clk

From: Walter Harms
Date: Fri Jun 09 2023 - 08:36:23 EST



while we are here ....

perhaps INT_MAX from kernel.h ?

int deviation = (1 << 30) - 1;

the part before looks a bit strange

if (ourport->info->has_divslot) {
unsigned long div = rate / req_baud;

/* The UDIVSLOT register on the newer UARTs allows us to
* get a divisor adjustment of 1/16th on the baud clock.
*
* We don't keep the UDIVSLOT value (the 16ths we
* calculated by not multiplying the baud by 16) as it
* is easy enough to recalculate.
*/

quot = div / 16;
baud = rate / div;
because
baud=rate/rate/req_baud = req_baud
can this be simplyfied ? (or is the numeric required ?)


Homebrew abs() kernel.h has a abs() can we use it here ?

if (calc_deviation < 0)
calc_deviation = -calc_deviation;

to the patch:

+ /*
+ * If we find a better clk, release the previous one, if
+ * any.
+ */
+ if (!IS_ERR(*best_clk))
+ clk_put(*best_clk);

the intentions are good. *best_clk is user supplied (and should be NULL)
filled & released in the next round but IMHO must be valid (is clk).
so no need to check. (ntl clk_put seems to handle NULL and ERR )
if (!clk || WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(clk)))
return;

JM2C
wh
________________________________________
Von: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Juni 2023 06:45:39
An: Krzysztof Kozlowski; Alim Akhtar; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Jiri Slaby; Thomas Abraham; Kukjin Kim
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Christophe JAILLET; linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-samsung-soc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-serial@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: [PATCH 2/2] tty: serial: samsung_tty: Fix a memory leak in s3c24xx_serial_getclk() when iterating clk

When the best clk is searched, we iterate over all possible clk.

If we find a better match, the previous one, if any, needs to be freed.
If a better match has already been found, we still need to free the new
one, otherwise it leaks.

Fixes: 5f5a7a5578c5 ("serial: samsung: switch to clkdev based clock lookup")
Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
This patch is speculative. Review with care.

I think that some clk_put() are also missing somewhere else in the driver
but won't be able to investigate further.
---
drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
index dd751e7010e3..c07877dd25fa 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/samsung_tty.c
@@ -1488,10 +1488,18 @@ static unsigned int s3c24xx_serial_getclk(struct s3c24xx_uart_port *ourport,
calc_deviation = -calc_deviation;

if (calc_deviation < deviation) {
+ /*
+ * If we find a better clk, release the previous one, if
+ * any.
+ */
+ if (!IS_ERR(*best_clk))
+ clk_put(*best_clk);
*best_clk = clk;
best_quot = quot;
*clk_num = cnt;
deviation = calc_deviation;
+ } else {
+ clk_put(clk);
}
}

--
2.34.1