Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] mm/slab: Add __free() support for kvfree

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 05:31:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2023 at 12:43:32AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Allow for the declaration of variables that trigger kvfree() when they
> > go out of scope.
> > 
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/slab.h |    2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h
> > index 848c7c82ad5a..241025367943 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/slab.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/slab.h
> > @@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ static inline __alloc_size(1, 2) void *kvcalloc(size_t n, size_t size, gfp_t fla
> >  extern void *kvrealloc(const void *p, size_t oldsize, size_t newsize, gfp_t flags)
> >  		      __realloc_size(3);
> >  extern void kvfree(const void *addr);
> > +DEFINE_FREE(kvfree, void *, if (_T) kvfree(_T))
> 
> No need to check _T before calling this, right (as was also pointed out
> earlier).

Well, that does mean you get an unconditional call to kvfree() in the
success case. Linus argued against this.

This way the compiler sees:

	buf = NULL;
	if (buf)
		kvfree(buf);

and goes: 'let me clean that up for you'. And all is well.