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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.de
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