[PATCH v2 0/2] gpio: sim: improve the usage of __free()

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Linus et al,

As discussed here's an improved fix for the invalid usage of __free() in
gpio-sim. I based it on your "maybe-sane" suggestion but unfortunately it
missed a couple details that make it impossible to avoid a conditional
initialization of the managed pointer without repeating the call to
fwnode_create_software_node().

What we're doing here is: we're creating the string array for the standard
"gpio-line-names" device property. It can look like this:

    { "foo", "bar", "baz" }
    
In which case lines 0, 1 and 2 are named but it can also look like this:

    { "foo", NULL, NULL, "bar", NULL, "baz" }
    
Where only lines 0, 3 and 5 have assigned names.

So the `has_line_names` boolean set when encountering the first line with a
name is there for a reason, namely: it's possible that only the line at
offset 0 will have a name, leaving max_offset at 0 but we still need to
create an array of size 1 in this case.

If the array is created and filled, then it needs to live until a deep
copy is completed in fwnode_create_software_node() so it has to be defined
at the top of the function.

I think this still results in clearer code then if we called
`return fwnode_create_software_node();` twice with the same arguments.

I also changed the naming to reflect the purpose of the array: it can be
sparse so it's not really "number of lines", it's the "size of the array
holding the names". The array can be of size 10 but we can only have 3
named lines.

To atone for the above, I've added a second patch which changes the other
instance of __free() in this driver to be initialized in place.

If this is alright for you, please consider applying it directly to your
tree for v6.6-rc2.

Best regards,
Bartosz Golaszewski

v1 -> v2:
- split the line name setting into two parts
- add a patch improving the second instance of using __free()

Bartosz Golaszewski (2):
  gpio: sim: fix an invalid __free() usage
  gpio: sim: initialize a managed pointer when declaring it

 drivers/gpio/gpio-sim.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)

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