[PATCH] cleanup: Remove NULL check from unconditional guards
From: Dmitry Ilvokhin
Date: Mon Apr 27 2026 - 13:05:31 EST
The unconditional guard destructors check whether the lock pointer is
NULL before unlocking. This check is unnecessary because unconditional
guards always acquire the lock: the pointer can never be NULL.
Conditional (_try) variants have their own destructors via
EXTEND_CLASS_COND() that handle the failure case before reaching the
base destructor.
As compiled by GCC-16 with defconfig on top of the locking/core:
Total: Before=23770501, After=23716538, chg -0.23%
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin <d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cleanup.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/cleanup.h b/include/linux/cleanup.h
index ea95ca4bc11c..1410effa8780 100644
--- a/include/linux/cleanup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cleanup.h
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ static __maybe_unused const bool class_##_name##_is_conditional = _is_cond
__DEFINE_GUARD_LOCK_PTR(_name, _T)
#define DEFINE_GUARD(_name, _type, _lock, _unlock) \
- DEFINE_CLASS(_name, _type, if (_T) { _unlock; }, ({ _lock; _T; }), _type _T); \
+ DEFINE_CLASS(_name, _type, _unlock, ({ _lock; _T; }), _type _T); \
DEFINE_CLASS_IS_GUARD(_name)
#define DEFINE_GUARD_COND_4(_name, _ext, _lock, _cond) \
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ typedef struct { \
static __always_inline void class_##_name##_destructor(class_##_name##_t *_T) \
__no_context_analysis \
{ \
- if (_T->lock) { _unlock; } \
+ _unlock; \
} \
\
__DEFINE_GUARD_LOCK_PTR(_name, &_T->lock)
--
2.52.0