Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] of: Introduce for_each_child_of_node_scoped() to automate of_node_put() handling

[Jonathan Cameron]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:54:57 +0100 (CET)
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Jan 2024, David Lechner wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jan 28, 2024 at 10:06 AM Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernelorg> wrote:  
> > >
> > > From: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > To avoid issues with out of order cleanup, or ambiguity about when the
> > > auto freed data is first instantiated, do it within the for loop definition.
> > >
> > > The disadvantage is that the struct device_node *child variable creation
> > > is not immediately obvious where this is used.
> > > However, in many cases, if there is another definition of
> > > struct device_node *child; the compiler / static analysers will notify us
> > > that it is unused, or uninitialized.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/of.h | 6 ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/of.h b/include/linux/of.h
> > > index 50e882ee91da..f822226eac6d 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/of.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/of.h
> > > @@ -1434,6 +1434,12 @@ static inline int of_property_read_s32(const struct device_node *np,
> > >         for (child = of_get_next_available_child(parent, NULL); child != NULL; \
> > >              child = of_get_next_available_child(parent, child))
> > >
> > > +#define for_each_child_of_node_scoped(parent, child) \
> > > +       for (struct device_node *child __free(device_node) =            \
> > > +            of_get_next_child(parent, NULL);                           \
> > > +            child != NULL;                                             \
> > > +            child = of_get_next_available_child(parent, child))  
> >
> > Doesn't this need to match the initializer (of_get_next_child)?
> > Otherwise it seems like the first node could be a disabled node but no
> > other disabled nodes would be included in the iteration.
> >
> > It seems like we would want two macros, one for each variation,
> > analogous to for_each_child_of_node() and
> > for_each_available_child_of_node().  
> 
> There are a bunch of iterators, and I guess a scoped version is needed for
> each of them?

Yes. I just didn't want to add too much to the RFC. I'd want to
convert a user of each as part of the patch set introducing the new
loop definitions.

Jonathan

> 
> julia
> 
> 
> >
> >  
> > > +
> > >  #define for_each_of_cpu_node(cpu) \
> > >         for (cpu = of_get_next_cpu_node(NULL); cpu != NULL; \
> > >              cpu = of_get_next_cpu_node(cpu))
> > > --
> > > 2.43.0
> > >
> > >  
> >