Re: [PATCH v2] kexec: Replace the goto out_unlock with out

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:55:18 +0800 Qiang Ma <maqianga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The image is initialized to NULL. Then, after calling kimage_alloc_init,
> we can directly goto 'out' because at this time, the kimage_free will
> determine whether image is a NULL pointer.
> 
> This will prepare for the subsequent patch to reset the variable in
> kimage_free.

There doesn't seem to be a benefit to applying this patch unless the
"subsequent patch" is also applied.  So wouldn't a two-patch series be
more appropriate?