Re: [PATCH 6.12 289/337] mm/slab: prevent unbounded recursion in free path with new kmalloc type

On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 11:02:45AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>   linux/mm/slab.h:572:24: error: duplicate 'inline' declaration specifier [-Werror,-Wduplicate-decl-specifier]
>     572 | static __always_inline inline bool need_kmalloc_no_objext(void)
> 
> The 'inline' should be dropped, as '__always_inline' includes 'inline'
> already.

Fixed in the queue - I dropped the redundant 'inline' and kept
'__always_inline', so the 6.12 backport now reads:

  static __always_inline bool need_kmalloc_no_objext(void)

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Thanks,
Sasha