Re: [PATCH] clk: tegra: tegra124-emc: fix krealloc() memory leak

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 08:13:13AM +0200, Alexander A. Klimov wrote:
> Don't just overwrite the original pointer passed to krealloc()
> with its return value without checking latter:
> 
>     MEM = krealloc(MEM, SZ, GFP);
> 
> If krealloc() returns NULL, that erases the pointer
> to the still allocated memory, hence leaks this memory.
> Instead, use a temporary variable, check it's not NULL
> and only then assign it to the original pointer:
> 
>     TMP = krealloc(MEM, SZ, GFP);
>     if (!TMP) return;
>     MEM = TMP;
> 
> Fixes: 888ca40e2843 ("clk: tegra: emc: Support multiple RAM codes")
> Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c | 9 ++++-----
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
> index f3b2c96fdcfc..8053fbbb06c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
> +++ b/drivers/clk/tegra/clk-tegra124-emc.c
> @@ -446,14 +446,13 @@ static int load_timings_from_dt(struct tegra_clk_emc *tegra,
>  	struct emc_timing *timings_ptr;
>  	int child_count = of_get_child_count(node);
>  	int i = 0, err;
> -	size_t size;
> +	size_t size = (tegra->num_timings + child_count) * sizeof(struct emc_timing);
> +	void *mem = krealloc(tegra->timings, size, GFP_KERNEL);
>  
> -	size = (tegra->num_timings + child_count) * sizeof(struct emc_timing);

This looks really wild now. I think it'd be better to follow the
original style:

	size_t size;
	void *mem;

	size = ...;

	mem = krealloc(...);
	if (!mem)
		...

With that:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>

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