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[V4,01/14] cleanup: Provide retain_ptr()

Message ID 20250319105506.083538907@linutronix.de
State New
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Series genirq/msi: Spring cleaning | expand

Commit Message

Thomas Gleixner March 19, 2025, 10:56 a.m. UTC 
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>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---
V4: Cast to void so can't be used as return_ptr() replacement - James
---
 include/linux/cleanup.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
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--- a/include/linux/cleanup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cleanup.h
@@ -216,6 +216,22 @@  const volatile void * __must_check_fn(co
 
 #define return_ptr(p)	return no_free_ptr(p)
 
+/*
+ * Only for situations where an allocation is handed in to another function
+ * and consumed by that function on success.
+ *
+ *	struct foo *f __free(kfree) = kzalloc(sizeof(*f), GFP_KERNEL);
+ *
+ *	setup(f);
+ *	if (some_condition)
+ *		return -EINVAL;
+ *	....
+ *	ret = bar(f);
+ *	if (!ret)
+ *		retain_ptr(f);
+ *	return ret;
+ */
+#define retain_ptr(p)		((void)__get_and_null(p, NULL))
 
 /*
  * DEFINE_CLASS(name, type, exit, init, init_args...):