Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 2 authors, 2025-01-08

Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] tracing: Use __free() in trace_probe for cleanup

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2025-01-07 15:35:17
Also in: lkml

On Tue,  7 Jan 2025 20:50:25 +0900
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
@@ -1790,18 +1777,15 @@ int traceprobe_expand_dentry_args(int argc, const char *argv[], char **buf)
 				       offsetof(struct file, f_path.dentry),
 				       equal ? equal + 1 : tmp);
 
-		kfree(tmp);
+		kfree(no_free_ptr(tmp));
I don't get this? You are telling the compiler not to free tmp, because you
decided to free it yourself? Why not just remove the kfree() here altogether?

-- Steve

 		if (ret >= bufsize - used)
-			goto nomem;
+			return -ENOMEM;
 		argv[i] = tmpbuf + used;
 		used += ret + 1;
 	}
 
-	*buf = tmpbuf;
+	*buf = no_free_ptr(tmpbuf);
 	return 0;
-nomem:
-	kfree(tmpbuf);
-	return -ENOMEM;
 }
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