Uninitialized pointers with `__free` attribute can cause undefined
behaviour as the memory assigned(randomly) to the pointer is freed
automatically when the pointer goes out of scope
arm doesn't have any bugs related to this as of now, but
it is better to initialize and assign pointers with `__free` attr
in one statement to ensure proper scope-based cleanup
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aPiG_F5EBQUjZqsl@stanley.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>
Message-Id: <
20251105-aheev-uninitialized-free-attr-arm-v1-1-
f7b6cb5d3361@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
struct resource *res,
struct scmi_shmem_io_ops **ops)
{
- struct device_node *shmem __free(device_node);
const char *desc = tx ? "Tx" : "Rx";
int ret, idx = tx ? 0 : 1;
struct device *cdev = cinfo->dev;
void __iomem *addr;
u32 reg_io_width;
- shmem = of_parse_phandle(cdev->of_node, "shmem", idx);
+ struct device_node *shmem __free(device_node) = of_parse_phandle(cdev->of_node,
+ "shmem", idx);
+
if (!shmem)
return IOMEM_ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);