Commit 08549ff
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cleanup: Provide retain_ptr()
In cases where an allocation is consumed by another function, the
allocation needs to be retained on success or freed on failure. The code
pattern is usually:
struct foo *f = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_KERNEL);
struct bar *b;
,,,
// Initialize f
...
if (ret)
goto free;
...
bar = bar_create(f);
if (!bar) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto free;
}
...
return 0;
free:
kfree(f);
return ret;
This prevents using __free(kfree) on @f because there is no canonical way
to tell the cleanup code that the allocation should not be freed.
Abusing no_free_ptr() by force ignoring the return value is not really a
sensible option either.
Provide an explicit macro retain_ptr(), which NULLs the cleanup
pointer. That makes it easy to analyze and reason about.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250313130321.442025758@linutronix.de1 parent 5376252 commit 08549ff
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