On Wed, Nov 05, 2025 at 07:37:52PM +0530, Ally Heev wrote:

Uninitialized pointers with `__free` attribute can cause undefined
behaviour as the memory assigned(randomly) to the pointer is freed
automatically when the pointer goes out of scope

Hi,

arm doesn't have any bugs related to this as of now, but
it is better to initialize and assign pointers with `__free` attr
in one statement to ensure proper scope-based cleanup

Thanks for this, I agree that it is better to stick to the intended
usage-pattern in order to avoid future issues when the nearby code
changes; for this reason I would also NOT add a Fix tag (...like you
effectively did NOT...just to clarify why :P)

Reviewed-by: Cristian Marussi <cristian.marussi@arm.com>

Thanks,
Cristian